Swanship
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Swanship is a noun meaning (uncommon, chiefly in fiction) A ship shaped like a swan.
Meaning
(uncommon, chiefly in fiction) A ship shaped like a swan.
More Meanings
- (uncommon) The status of being a swan; swanhood, swanness.
Example Sentences
"That's what I feel," replied Jasper, relieved, then chuckled to see the sleek, bewhiskered head of a seal pop out of the water by the swanship.
"A flight towards swanship, certainly." "Full swanship," said the girl. "I won't have him for a swan yet in my aviary; he must first grow other and finer feathers."
He might have been drowned, along with fat Basil, that arrogant merchant, when the swanship broke apart. Indeed, he thought, in all of his wanderings since his birth in the Carthaginian hills, he had rarely been far from death.
He is a dingy duck who would assume swanship, a crow who would strut as a peacock, an alley cat who would pass himself off as a lion. Imagining himself gifted above all of us perfected craftsmen, he has the effrontery to range .
Word Forms
- swanships
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include swanskin, swan dive, swooping, sweepline, upswell, groundswell.
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