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# sward

«sward» in Mova's school dictionary: **An area of short grass; a lawn or green field of turf** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a sward, swards — literary)

### meaning for a pupil

(literary, old) An area of short grass; a lawn or green field of turf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sward/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Found in poems and older stories describing the countryside: «a green sward». In The Wind in the Willows there are meadows and green banks by the river. In geography and farming, «sward» is used for the grass cover of a field.

### examples

- The children ran across the green sward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sward/#x1)
- Sheep grazed on the sward by the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sward/#x2)
- They spread a picnic on the sward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sward/#x3)
- The castle stood above a smooth sward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sward/#x4)
- Daisies dotted the sward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sward/#x5)
- The farmer checked the sward before letting the cows out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sward/#x6)
- They flung themselves down on the sward, close to their underground home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sward/#x7)

### note

Literary; everyday words: grass, lawn, turf. Say «swawd», rhyming with «ward»; the w is spoken, unlike in «sword».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sward» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sward/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.