swede
IPA: swˈid
noun
- (chiefly Britain) The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rape, Brassica napus var. napobrassica, resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable.
- The plant from which this is obtained.
- (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) The turnip.
- (UK, slang) The head.
- A person from Sweden or of Swedish descent.
- (historical) A member of an ancient North Germanic tribe that inhabited central Sweden
verb
- To produce a low-budget remake of a film without the use of professional actors or filming techniques.
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Examples of "swede" in Sentences
- Thus the Swede was ahead the American.
- The green area is the land of the Swedes.
- Icy roads snarl Swedes' Christmas travels.
- The Swedes relocated the capital to Stade.
- Hes hould be referred to as a Finnish swede.
- As the Danes moved in the Swedes evacuated the island.
- It is meaningless to refer to Anya as a fictional Swede.
- During The Deluge the town was pillaged and burnt by the Swedes.
- On June 21, 1654, the Indians met with the Swedes to reaffirm the purchase.
- Do the Swedes understand that the paymeant terms are shrewd coercion tactics
- I think a rutabaga is what, in England, we called a swede - yellowish, large root vegetable - good mashed with lots of butter.
- Michel Gondry, the movie’s director, has now filmed a spoof (or as the characters in the movie call it – swede) of his own movie’s trailer, in the spirit of the characters in his movie.
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