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Definition of Swan song
1. Noun. A final performance or effort (especially before retirement).
Definition of Swan song
1. Noun. (idiomatic) A final performance or accomplishment, especially one before retirement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swan Song
Literary usage of Swan song
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Lit Digest 52:382 F 12 '16 swan song of a great fair. Sunset 35:1051-2 D '15
Woman's room at the world's fair. AN Meyer. ..."
2. Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas: With Recollections and Anecdotes of D by François Cellier, Cunningham Bridgeman (1914)
"... German's collaboration—Sullivan's swan-song—The fairy cleaner—" The Emerald
Isle " in Dublin- Mrs. D'Oyly Carte resumes management with revivals—A gala ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"... the Book of Isaiah seems to have followed Ezekiel, a fact which seems to
confirm the late date of at least parts of the book. called his 'swan-song. ..."
4. Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas: With Recollections and Anecdotes of D by François Cellier, Cunningham Bridgeman (1914)
"... German's collaboration—Sullivan's swan-song—The fairy cleaner—" The Emerald
Isle " in Dublin- Mrs. D'Oyly Carte resumes management with revivals—A gala ..."
5. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"... the Book of Isaiah seems to have followed Ezekiel, a fact which seems to
confirm the late date of at least parts of the book. called his 'swan-song. ..."
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