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swede

swid
WordNet
Silver medal. Obverse: the Danish elephant throws a Swede off its back, tramples a snake and shakes an ibex. Reverse: inscription
Silver medal. Obverse: the Danish elephant throws a Swede off its back, tramples a snake and shakes an ibex. Reverse: inscription
  1. (n) swede
    the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food
  2. (n) Swede
    a native or inhabitant of Sweden
  3. (n) swede
    a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
Illustrations
Victory of the Russian forces over the Swedes at the Battle of Poltava on July 8, 1709, with Tsar Peter the Great defeating Swedish King Charles XII in 1709. It was the decisive battle in the Great Northern War. View of the battlefield. With captions in Dutch and French.
Victory of the Russian forces over the Swedes at the Battle of Poltava on July 8, 1709, with Tsar Peter the Great defeating Swedish King Charles XII in 1709. It was the decisive battle in the Great Northern War. View of the battlefield. With captions in Dutch and French.
Sheet with 12 representations of couples from different peoples, including Dutch, Swedes, English and Poles. A caption below each image. Numbered top right: no. 80.
Sheet with 12 representations of couples from different peoples, including Dutch, Swedes, English and Poles. A caption below each image. Numbered top right: no. 80.
Map of Copenhagen showing the Dutch fleet breaking the siege of the city by the Swedes, 19-21 February 1659. In the foreground, soldiers under a tree and women with children playing cards. Left the legend az. Two text sheets belong to the print.
Map of Copenhagen showing the Dutch fleet breaking the siege of the city by the Swedes, 19-21 February 1659. In the foreground, soldiers under a tree and women with children playing cards. Left the legend az. Two text sheets belong to the print.
A Swede who plundered a tailor's house during the Riot in Amsterdam is beaten in the street, June 26, 1748. Marked top right: N. 6.
A Swede who plundered a tailor's house during the Riot in Amsterdam is beaten in the street, June 26, 1748. Marked top right: N. 6.
Harbor with soldiers driving out of a redoubt the Swedes who had taken the Danish city of Nyborg on the island of Funen. In the background a view of Nyborg. Capture of the city of Nyborg by Michiel de Ruyter and the defeat of the Swedish army by the Danes, November 25, 1659.
Harbor with soldiers driving out of a redoubt the Swedes who had taken the Danish city of Nyborg on the island of Funen. In the background a view of Nyborg. Capture of the city of Nyborg by Michiel de Ruyter and the defeat of the Swedish army by the Danes, November 25, 1659.
Capture of Frankfurt an der Oder by the Swedes, April 3, 1631. Legend of AN in caption. Numbered bottom right with pen: 429. The print is part of an album.
Capture of Frankfurt an der Oder by the Swedes, April 3, 1631. Legend of AN in caption. Numbered bottom right with pen: 429. The print is part of an album.
Chasing the Swedes out of a redoubt on Funen. Capture of the city of Nyborg by Michiel de Ruyter and the defeat of the Swedish army by the Danes, November 25, 1659.
Chasing the Swedes out of a redoubt on Funen. Capture of the city of Nyborg by Michiel de Ruyter and the defeat of the Swedish army by the Danes, November 25, 1659.
Portrait of the Swede Peter Brahe, Governor of Finland. With sash over his armor, half-length in oval frame. Below the frame an inscription in Latin.
Portrait of the Swede Peter Brahe, Governor of Finland. With sash over his armor, half-length in oval frame. Below the frame an inscription in Latin.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
While many treaties have been signed at or near Paris, France (including many after WWI and WWII), nine are actually known as the "Treaty of Paris": Seven Years' War (1763), American Revolutionary War (1783), French-Swede War (1810), France vs Sixth Coalition (1814), Battle of Waterloo (1815), Crimean War (1856), Spanish-American War (1898), union of Bessarabia and Romania (1920), establishment of European Coal and Steel Community (1951).
  1. Swede
    A native or inhabitant of Sweden.
  2. Swede
    (Bot) A Swedish turnip. See under Turnip.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) swede
    A native of Sweden, a kingdom of Europe which occupies the eastern part of the Scandinavian peninsula. Since 1814 it has been united with Norway under a common sovereign.
  2. (n) swede
    [cap. or lowercase] A Swedish turnip.
  3. (n) swede
    A cannon consisting of a thin metal tube wound around with rope and covered with leather. Such cannon are said to have carried about a quarter of the load of an iron cannon. They were introduced by the Swedes, and used until the battle of Leipsic.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Swede
    swēd a native of Sweden; a Swedish turnip
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. G. Schwede,

Usage in the news

COMMERCE CITY — She was a Swede coaching an American team and the language barrier was, at times, a difficult bridge. denverpost.com

The Swedes Inn, 1301 Kings Highway, Swedesboro, is hosting an "Elegant Picnic ," a six-course wine dinner headlining fresh fruits and vegetables from local South Jersey farms, on Thursday and Friday, July 19th & 20th, at 7:00 p.m. blog.nj.com

2012 was best-ever for Swede volleyball. gothenburgtimes.com

During a hot run on a challenging course at Lakeside Country Club for the Lexington Invite last week, the Swede girls found a way to finish within just a few runners of each other. gothenburgtimes.com

" Swede Fest" Celebrates Low Budget Film Remakes in Video. videomaker.com

Much as the Swedes are credited with tech-loving forward thinking, they also embrace a timeless vernacular of simple lines and indigenous materials that read just as well in 2007 as they did at the Stockholm Exhibition of 1897. interiordesign.net

Ervin " Swede " Schubert, age 92, of Harding, MN, passed away Sunday, June 10, 2012 at the Pierz Villa in Pierz, MN. mcrecord.com

A man was knocked unconscious during a fight on Swede Alley last weekend, the Park City Police Department, describing a confrontation that started in a nightclub and spilled into the street. parkrecord.com

SANBORNTON — The first ever Swede Fest Film Festival in New England is scheduled to be held on the campus of Sant Bani School this May. laconiadailysun.com

Swede Fest is the only film festival dedicated to "sweded" films. laconiadailysun.com

A hardy band of 24 Swedes , Finns and Dutchmen, with one black Caribbean freedman, set sail for the New World on the last day of 1637. delawaretoday.com

Another Swede Killing it in Hollywood. hollywoodreporter.com

Celebrate the Season like a Swede . minnesotamonthly.com

The festival happening Aug 3 is dedicated to swedes : no-budget remakes of popular movies created by the public and that are up to three minutes long. tcpalm.com

And the worse the swedes are, the better. tcpalm.com

Usage in scientific papers

This is the dark Swedes’ problem: even dark Swedes should probably be tall.
Remarks on Inheritance Systems

Usage in literature

THE SWEDES IN ADVANCE OF PENN. "Luther and the Reformation:" by Joseph A. Seiss

Stutter yere is a-takin' up with Greasers, an' Mike with Swedes. "Beth Norvell" by Randall Parrish

The Swede was again coming up the bank. "Under Handicap" by Jackson Gregory

The Swede brandished his long arms, he shouted, others echoed him. "The Portion of Labor" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

And what is it you are doing here, as a Swede, at all? "A Jacobite Exile" by G. A. Henty

Not quite a hundred years after the time of Sir Philip Sidney there was a war between the Swedes and the Danes. "Fifty Famous Stories Retold" by James Baldwin

You can read up the Swedes in the original. "The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.)" by Various

The Swede did not bother to investigate in detail the food and water supply. "Captain Scraggs" by Peter B. Kyne

The Christmas fish is to the Swede what the Christmas roast-beef is to the Englishman, an indispensable adjunct of the festival. "Yule-Tide in Many Lands" by Mary P. Pringle and Clara A. Urann

Olie, I at once told myself, was a Swede. "The Prairie Wife" by Arthur Stringer

Usage in poetry
To our homes and household altars
We, in turn, thy steps would lead,
As thy loving hand has led us
O'er the threshold of the Swede.
"To Fredrika Bremer" by John Greenleaf Whittier Author object (377)
Leaping late and early,
Till under their bite and their tread
The swedes and the wheat and the barley
Lay cankered and trampled and dead.
"The Bad Squire" by Charles Kingsley Author object (101)
Come, live with us and be our cook,
And we will all the whimsies brook
That German, Irish, Swede, and Slav
And all the dear domestics have.
"Help" by Franklin Pierce Adams Author object (219)
Some things they did I will not tell.
They're not quite proper for a rhyme.
But I will say Yim Yonson Swede
Did sure invent a sunflower time.
"When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich" by Vachel Lindsay
One morn, in hills near Cripple-creek
With cheerful swears the two awoke.
The Swede had twenty cents, all right.
But Gassy Thompson was clean broke.
"When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich" by Vachel Lindsay
"These soft Danes and Swedes," said the King,
"At home with their wives had better stay,
Than come within reach of my Serpent's sting:
But where Eric the Norseman leads
Heroic deeds
Will be done to-day!"
"Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga of King Olaf XIX. -- King Olaf's War-" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Author object (294)