adj
Meaning 1
Given or declared under oath.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- His sworn statement convinced the judge.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sworn
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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Received-Pronunciation: /swɔːn/
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UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: /swɔɹn/
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US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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/swo(ː)ɹn/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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/swoən/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)n
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CMU ARPABET: S W AO1 R N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Bound as though by an oath.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- I'm sworn to secrecy.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Ardent, devout.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- a sworn foe
- a sworn socialist
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
past participle of swear
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
bound by or stated on oath- Shakespeare
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- now my sworn friend and then mine enemy
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unsworn
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
bound by or as if by an oath
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- according to an early tradition became his sworn brother
- sworn enemies
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pledged
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English sworen, isworen, from Old English sworen, ġesworen, from Proto-West Germanic *swaran, *giswaran, from Proto-Germanic *swaranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swarjaną (“to swear”), equivalent to swear + -en.
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: заклет (zaklet) — Given under oath
- Czech: přísežný — Given under oath
- Czech: místopřísežný — Given under oath
- Ancient Greek: ὅρκιος (hórkios) — Given under oath
- Polish: przysięgły — Given under oath
- Portuguese: juramento — Given under oath
- Russian: заклятый (zakljatyj) — Given under oath
- Spanish: jurado — Given under oath
- Swedish: svuren — Given under oath
- Czech: vázaný přísahou — bound by an oath
- Czech: zapřisáhlý — ardent
Real reading context