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# cygnet

noun (a cygnet, cygnets)

«cygnet» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A cygnet is a young swan. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cygnet/#m1)

### In the lessons

In nature lessons and stories like «The Ugly Duckling», where the grey, clumsy bird turns out to be a cygnet that grows into a beautiful white swan. Cygnets are grey or brown and fluffy; they often ride on their parents' backs. Family words: cob (male swan), pen (female swan).

### Examples

- Five grey cygnets swam behind their mother. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cygnet/#x1)
- The ugly duckling was really a cygnet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cygnet/#x2)
- Cygnets sometimes ride on the swan's back. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cygnet/#x3)
- Don't go near the cygnets — the parents will protect them fiercely. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cygnet/#x4)
- By winter the cygnets were almost as big as their parents. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cygnet/#x5)
- We watched the cygnets hatch on the river bank. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cygnet/#x6)
- Suddenly Coo-my-dove changed into a goshawk and around him flew twenty-four grey herons and above them flew seven cygnets. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cygnet/#x7)

### Note

Countable. Pronounced «SIG-nit». Homophone: signet (a signet ring, with a seal on it). Swan family: cob (male), pen (female), cygnet (young).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cygnet» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cygnet/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cygnet» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cygnet.html) on Mova free.