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- [swey]
- /sweɪ/
- /sweɪ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [swey]
- /sweɪ/
Definitions of sway word
- verb without object sway to move or swing to and fro, as something fixed at one end or resting on a support. 1
- verb without object sway to move or incline to one side or in a particular direction. 1
- verb without object sway to incline in opinion, sympathy, tendency, etc.: She swayed toward conservatism. 1
- verb without object sway to fluctuate or vacillate, as in opinion: His ideas swayed this way and that. 1
- verb without object sway to wield power; exercise rule. 1
- verb with object sway to cause to move to and fro or to incline from side to side. 1
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Origin of sway
First appearance:
before 1300 One of the 15% oldest English words
1300-50; (verb) Middle English sweyen < Old Norse sveigja “to bend, sway” (transitive); (noun) Middle English, derivative of the verb
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Parts of speech for Sway
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
sway popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
sway usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for sway
noun sway
- abruptness — sudden or unexpected: an abrupt departure.
- ambulation — to walk about or move from place to place.
- ascendancy — If one group has ascendancy over another group, it has more power or influence than the other group.
- ascendency — the state of being in the ascendant; governing or controlling influence; domination.
- augustness — inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic: an august performance of a religious drama.
verb sway
- act upon — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- affect — If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
- alternate — When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
- arcing — Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- arcked — a simple past tense and past participle of arc.
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