Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Archaic Swarthy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Being of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy: said especially of the skin or complexion.
- To make swart; blacken; tan.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
- adj. Black.
- adj. obsolete Gloomy; malignant.
- n. Black or dark dyestuff; something of a certain swart; something of a certain ocker.
- v. transitive To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part; blacken; tan.
- n. Obsolete spelling of sward.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Sward.
- adj. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
- adj. obsolete Gloomy; malignant.
- v. To make swart or tawny.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. naturally having skin of a dark color
Etymologies
- Variant of sward. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English swarte, from Old English sweart. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The four were swarthy men, and, unlike the Greeks they were seeking to oppose, their swart was a peculiarity of birth, a racial sign.”
“Other political parties, like the NP, have nothing else to campaign about and can no longer use their" swart - "and" rooigevaar "tactics and are now reverting to using the" moving parliament gevaar ".”
OPPOSITION USING "MOVING PARLIAMENT GEVAAR" AS ELECTION CAMPAIGN
“Beyond the wide court slept a dark abyss, and into the abyss there poured a white cascade of marble stairways, and widened out below into terraces and balconies with fair white statues on them, and descended again in a wide stairway, and came to lower terraces in the dark, where swart uncertain shapes went to and fro.”
“Now, I will photograph the tree in its demise, upended in swart disarray.”
“A slender, swart-skinned man, lithe of figure and graceful, stepped forward to the open space before the table.”
“The swart face of the older half-breed flushed angrily, as he drew himself up and promised in good, round terms that he would travel his leader off his legs, and would then be delighted to plant him in the snow.”
“How-ha grunted, and yielded up the obedience she could not withhold; though, as she went down the stairs to the door, in a tenebrous, glimmering way she wondered that the accident of white skin or swart made master or servant as the case might be.”
“Jees Uck was of a swart-skinned breed, it is true, but she was not an Indian; nor was she an Eskimo; nor even an Innuit.”
“And since it has been determined that love is service, and since to renounce is to serve, then Jees Uck, who was merely a woman of a swart-skinned breed, loved with a great love.”
“It might possibly have put the warm blood under her skin, which made her face less swart and her body fairer; but that, in turn, might have come from Shpack, the Big Fat, who inherited the colour of his Slavonic father.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘swart’.
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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Moby-Dick
Interesting words and usages.
hypo, spile, hunks, grapnel, squitchy, skrimshander, monkey jacket, direful, grego, wrapall, dreadnaught, bosky and 158 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Ulysses
This is a list of the more difficult English words found in James Joyce's Ulysses. It will continually be updated as I read along. The list is in reverse chronological order, meaning that the last ...
equine, untonsured, corpuscle, prelate, parapet, dactyl, jejune, lancet, jalap, barbican, valise, dewsilky and 377 more...
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Billiebob's Words
chaparral, benevolent, purview, adroit, nimble, stigmata, placard, ribald, robust, husk, tankard, placate and 45 more...
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Moby Dick
A list of words from the book Moby Dick.
apoplexy, festooned, legerdemain, somnambulistic, peremptorily, swart, rapscallions, exordium, inculcating, bivouacks, vacuity, monomaniac and 28 more...
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natalya1718's list
Words
stroky (aka: tall..., oh my lanta georgia, darndit, clumb, thwack, zarf, swart, brit
Tweets
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yarb The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 48 Jul 25, 2008