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- [swound, swoond]
- /swaʊnd, swund/
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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
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- [swound, swoond]
- /swaʊnd, swund/
Definitions of swound word
- abbreviation SWOUND swoon. 1
- noun swound swoon; faint 0
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Origin of swound
First appearance:
before 1400 One of the 24% oldest English words
1400-50; late Middle English swounde (v.), variant (with excrescent d) of swoune to swoon
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Swound
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
swound popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 51% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.
swound usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerTop questions with swound
- what is a swound?
See also
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