Noun: swear
| Singular | swear |
| Plural | swears |
Sample Sentences
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You might think it funny to hear this Kanaka girl come out with a big swear. No such thing. There was no swearing in her — no, nor anger; she was beyond anger, and meant the word simple and serious. [1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá:]
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[A]ccording to his kind the man would smile cynically, or look sad, or let out a swear or two. [1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page v. 27:]
Nouns inflected like swear
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From the above verb, or from Middle English sware, from Old English swaru, from Proto-Germanic *swarō. See: Middle English Nouns '
sware', Old English Nouns '
swaru'.
Verbs referencing "swear"
Danish Nouns
svar, German Nouns
Schwur, Russian Nouns
ссора.