Usually means: Bladed weapon used for combat.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. sword: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sword: Merriam-Webster
  3. sword, the sword: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sword: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sword, the sword: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sword: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sword, sword: Wordnik
  8. sword: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sword, sword: Wiktionary
  10. sword: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sword: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sword: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Sword, sword: Dictionary.com
  14. sword: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sword: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. S.W.O.R.D. (The Saint), S.W.O.R.D. (comics), SWORD (Protocol), SWORD (protocol), Sword (band), Sword (disambiguation), Sword (weapon), Sword, The Sword (comics), The Sword (film), The Sword (public house), The Sword, The sword: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sword: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sword: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sword: Rhymezone
  20. sword: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sword: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Sword: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. sword: FreeDictionary.org
  24. sword: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. sword: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. sword: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sword: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SWORD: Investopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sword: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SWORD: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  4. SWORD: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. sword: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sword: Easton Bible
  2. Sword: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sword: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Sword, s'word: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See swording as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  A suit in certain playing card decks, particularly those used in Spain and Italy, or those used for divination.
noun:  A card of this suit.
noun:  (weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
verb:  (uncommon) To stab or cut with a sword
noun:  A surname.

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