Crossword-Solution: SWAIN 5 letters, 62 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Swain n. A servant.
Swain n. A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a
cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry.

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SWAIN anagram SAWIN, SIWAN, WAINS, WASIN, WINSA

We have 62 clues for the answer “SWAIN”

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Old word for young lower 1 answer
BUCOLIC lover 1 answer
Beau, rustic style. 1 answer
Beau: Poet. 1 answer
Belle's boy 1 answer
Boyfriend in Shakespeare's time 1 answer
Bucolic Romeo. 1 answer
COUNTRY boy 1 answer
Country youth 1 answer
Country youth: Poet. 1 answer
Editor of the clarion on "peyton place" 1 answer
His domain is lover's lane 1 answer
Lover to a poet 1 answer
Male admirer, in old parlance 1 answer
Old-fashioned lover? 1 answer
One with a suit to press 1 answer
Quaint boyfriend? 1 answer
Rural suitor 1 answer
Rustic Romeo. 1 answer
Rustic, to Milton 1 answer
Suffix with boat or cox 1 answer
Suitor to a poet 1 answer
Suitor, in poetry 1 answer
Young heartthrob 1 answer
Young man in pursuit 1 answer
Young shepherd 1 answer
Young suitor 1 answer
young rustic 1 answer
Swineherd. 2 answers
Country lad 2 answers
Belle's beau 2 answers
Young lover. 3 answers
Male suitor 3 answers
Male admirer 3 answers
One who goes a-courting 4 answers
GENTLEMAN friend 4 answers
Loverboy 6 answers
Lover boy 8 answers
A YOUNG LOVER OR SUITOR 10 answers
CONCERN BEAU BRUMMEL 10 answers
AN ARDENT MALE LOVER 10 answers
BOY LOVER 10 answers
COUNTRY gallant 10 answers
BEAU BARBIE 10 answers
ADMIRER BEAUTY 10 answers
CAT MALE ADMIRER 10 answers
ADMIRER GROUP 11 answers
Wooer 15 answers
AUSTRALIAN reef(s) 16 answers
Boyfriend 18 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SWAIN (5)

But thou, Swain of Upmeads, wilt thou deem it hard to lie anear the horses, to watch them if they be scared by aught?" "Yea," said the Knight of the Sun, "thou art Lady here forsooth; even as men say of thee, that thou swayest man and beast in the wildwood.
The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008
Miss Evers’s devoted swain had never struck Bernard as a brilliant reasoner, but our friend suddenly found himself regarding him as one of the inspired.
Confidence Henry James 2006
There was Jessop, at the Art School; Swain, who was chemistry demonstrator at the university; Newton, who was a teacher; besides Edgar and Miriam’s younger brothers.
Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence 1995
Even as to Bacchus and to Ceres, so To thee the swain his yearly vows shall make; And thou thereof, like them, shalt quittance claim." MOPSUS How, how repay thee for a song so rare? For not the whispering south-wind on its way So much delights me, nor wave-smitten beach, Nor streams that race adown their bouldered beds.
The Bucolics and Eclogues Virgil 2008
Soon as the vine her lingering leaves hath shed, And the chill north wind from the forests shook Their coronal, even then the careful swain Looks keenly forward to the coming year, With Saturn's curved fang pursues and prunes The vine forlorn, and lops it into shape.
The Georgics Virgil 2008

Quotes with SWAIN (3)

As a fantasist, I well understand the power of escapism, particularly as relates to romance. But when so many stories aimed at the same audience all trumpet the same message — And Lo! There shall be Two Hot Boys, one of them your Heart’s Intended, the other a vain Pretender who is also hot and with whom you shall have guilty makeouts before settling down with your One True Love — I am inclined to stop viewing the situation as benign and start wondering why, for instance, the …
Foz Meadows
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his con…
Christopher Morley
This was all splendid stuff for Luciaphils; it was amazing how at a first glance she recognised everybody. The gallery, too, was full of dears and darlings of a few weeks' standing, and she completed a little dinner-party for next Tuesday long before she had made the circuit. All the time she kept Stephen by her side, looked over his catalogue, put a hand on his arm to direct his attention to some picture, took a speck of alien material off his sleeve, and all the time the en…
E.F. Benson Lucia in London
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 78 times in crossword archives (1945–2022).