noun
Meaning 1
The track cut out by a scythe in mowing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
swath
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /swɒθ/
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US: /swɑθ/
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/swɔθ/
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/swɑð/ sense 2
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/sweɪð/
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/swɔð/
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rhymes with -ɒθ
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CMU ARPABET: S W AA1 TH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A broad sweep or expanse, such as of land or of people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, often
Examples
- A large swath of the population is opposed to this government policy.
- Five days after Hurricane Katrina, large swaths of New Orleans are still submerged in water.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Acronym of small waterplane area twin hull, a ship design philosophy for reducing pitching and rolling, and increasing stability, in all sea states.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 4
a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: belt
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: path, track, course
noun
Meaning 5
the space created by the swing of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: space
History
Etymology
From Middle English swath, swathe, from Old English swæþ, swaþu (“track; trace; footstep”), from Proto-Germanic *swaþō (“a wind-swept place; open field”), of unknown further origin. Has been derived from a Proto-Indo-European *swey- (“to bend, turn, swing”), and compared with Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “snub-nosed”) and Welsh chwil (“reeling, staggering”), though this is uncertain, as well as the Greek comparandum being unlikely. Cognate with Dutch zwade, zwad (“swath; windrow”), German Schwade (“swath; windrow”), Icelandic svæði (“area; zone; sector; region”). other etymological information Corresponds to Middle Low German and Middle Dutch swat, Middle High German and MNG swade, NDu swad(e), Old Frisian swethe (“border”). Root meaning: trace of a cut. Attested in English since 888 in its obsolete meaning of track or trace, since 1475 in its more modern usage. Cognate with German Schwaden (“row of mown grass or grain”). No definite cognates outside Germanic languages. * See F. Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch (De Gruyter), entry Schwaden, and OED.
Across languages
Translations
50 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مَمَرّ (mamarr) — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Armenian: լաս (las) — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Bulgarian: о́ткос (ótkos) — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Dutch: zwad — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Dutch: zwade — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Finnish: lakeinen — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Finnish: laas — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Finnish: laes — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Finnish: lati — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Finnish: niittoetuus — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Finnish: niittokaista — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- French: andain — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Gallo: andain — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- German: Schneise — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- German: Schwade — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- German: Schwaden — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Hungarian: rend — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Latin: striga — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Polish: pokos — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Russian: проко́с (prokós) — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Serbo-Croatian: о̀ткос — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Serbo-Croatian: òtkos — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Sicilian: lenza — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Slovak: odkos — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Slovak: riadok — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Slovene: odkos — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Ottoman Turkish: یانصار (yansar) — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Ukrainian: прокі́с (prokís) — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Walloon: bate — The track cut out by a scythe in mowing
- Czech: řada — a group of persons
- Finnish: joukko — a group of persons
- German: Schwung — a group of persons
- German: Reihe — a group of persons
- German: Haufen — a group of persons
- German: Reihen — a group of persons
- Sicilian: cumarca — a group of persons
- Slovak: rad — a group of persons
- Czech: pás — expanse, a strip of land
- Czech: kus — expanse, a strip of land
- Czech: pruh — expanse, a strip of land
- Finnish: maa-alue — expanse, a strip of land
- Finnish: maakaistale — expanse, a strip of land
- German: Landstrich — expanse, a strip of land
- German: (breiter) Streifen — expanse, a strip of land
- Hungarian: sáv — expanse, a strip of land
- Polish: pas — expanse, a strip of land
- Serbo-Croatian: slog — expanse, a strip of land
- Sicilian: lenza — expanse, a strip of land
- Slovak: pás — expanse, a strip of land
- Slovak: kus — expanse, a strip of land