sword

Meaning

Noun

1. A long bladed weapon with a grip and typically a pommel and crossguard (together forming a hilt), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack.
2. A suit in certain playing card decks, particularly those used in Spain and Italy, or those used for divination.
3. A card of this suit.
4. One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

Verb

To stab or cut with a sword

Concepts

sword

saber

blade

dagger

knife

scimitar

sabre

rapier

epee

steel

bayonet

brand

foil

broadsword

katana

falchion

cutlass

spear

batten

beater

large knife

razor

edge

single stroke

armed might

force

military power

sheet metal

military force

long knife

glaive

skewer

slasher

spit

sickle

foot sword

club

moonstone

spatula

simitar

cleaver

machete

fencing sword

weapon

scythe

degen

mattock

tool

épée

lance

iron

cutting

Pronounced as (IPA)

[sɔːd]

Etymology

From Middle English sword, swerd, from Old English sweord (“sword”), from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą (“sword”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂w- (“sharp”). Cognate with Scots swuird, swerd, sword (“sword”), North Frisian swird (“sword”), West Frisian swurd (“sword”), Dutch zwaard (“sword”), Low German Sweerd, Schwert (“sword”), German Schwert (“sword”), Danish sværd, Norwegian sverd, Swedish svärd (“sword”), Icelandic sverð (“sword”), Old East Slavic свьрдьлъ (svĭrdĭlŭ, “drill”).