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# sward

noun (a sward, swards — literary)

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

## Everyday

(literary, old) An area of short grass; a lawn or green field of turf. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sward/#m1)

### In the lessons

Found in poems and older stories describing the countryside: «a green sward». In The Wind in the Willows there are meadows and green banks by the river. In geography and farming, «sward» is used for the grass cover of a field.

### Examples

- The children ran across the green sward. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sward/#x1)
- Sheep grazed on the sward by the river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sward/#x2)
- They spread a picnic on the sward. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sward/#x3)
- The castle stood above a smooth sward. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sward/#x4)
- Daisies dotted the sward. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sward/#x5)
- The farmer checked the sward before letting the cows out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sward/#x6)
- They flung themselves down on the sward, close to their underground home. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sward/#x7)

### Note

Literary; everyday words: grass, lawn, turf. Say «swawd», rhyming with «ward»; the w is spoken, unlike in «sword».

## On Mova

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