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Definition of Swede

1. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Sweden.

2. Noun. A cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root.

3. Noun. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food.

Definition of Swede

1. n. A native or inhabitant of Sweden.

Definition of Swede

1. Noun. A person from Sweden or of Swedish descent. ¹

2. Noun. (chiefly British) The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rape, ''Brassica napus'', resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable. ¹

3. Noun. The plant from which this is obtained. ¹

4. Noun. (Scotland Ireland Northern England) The turnip. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Swede

1. a rutabaga [n -S] - See also: rutabaga

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swede

sweatpanted sweatpants sweatproof sweats sweats bullets sweatshirt sweatshirted sweatshirts sweatshop sweatshops

sweatsuit sweatsuits sweaty sweb swebby swede (current term) swedenborgite swedes swedge swedged

swedish turnip swee sweed sweeing sweel sweeled sweeling sweels sweeney sweeneys

Literary usage of Swede

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"'T was a little hard f'r th' swede on ac- "Mabby we ought to tell him. ... kem in he would shtop a moment an' look around 'T was th' swede that said it. ..."

2. The Red Badge of Courage and Four Stories by Stephen Crane (1997)
"The countenances of the Easterner and the swede were miserable whenever the ... Because of the absorbing play none considered the strange ways of the swede. ..."

3. Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c.: And of a Cruise in the Black Sea by Sir Adolphus Slade (1833)
"Not having the slightest idea of it, I shrunk at the effect which so abrupt a notification would have on the swede, who was naturally choleric, ..."

4. A Northern Summer, Or, Travels Round the Baltic Through Denmark, Sweden by John Carr (1806)
"My friend Captain Elphinstone insisted upon riding to the bridge with me, in the little swede, as he called it, where we parted with mutual and genuine ..."

5. Agricultural Botany: Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1921)
"swede ami swede-like ' Rape.' FIG. lax.—Flower of cabbage, showing erect sepals, t. Leaves of 1st year's plant grass-green with stiff hairs, flowers bright ..."

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