swire

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swire¹

  • /swaɪə/

Where it comes from

From Middle English swire, from Old English swēora, from Proto-Germanic *swerhô.

noun swires

  1. obsolete The neck.
  2. A hollow between two hills or peaks, especially with a road running through it; a vale. As he approached the swire at the head of the dell […], he beheld, to his astonishment, a bright halo in the cloud of haze, that rose in a semi-circle over his head like a pale rainbow.

Swire²

proper noun

  1. A surname.

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@misc{swire_2026,
  title = {swire},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/swire},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}