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swell

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: swĕl, IPA^(key): /swɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

From Middle English swellen, from Old English swellan (“to swell”), from Proto-West Germanic *swellan, from Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”), of unknown origin.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian swälle (“to swell”), West Frisian swolle (“to swell”), Dutch zwellen (“to swell”), Low German swellen (“to swell”), German schwellen (“to swell”), Swedish svälla (“to swell”), Icelandic svella. The adjective may derive from the noun.

Verb

swell (third-person singular simple present swells, present participle swelling, simple past swelled or (dialectal) swole or (dialectal) swoll, past participle swollen or swelled)

1. (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
2. (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
3. (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.

4. (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
5. (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.

6. (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
7. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
8. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.

9. To protuberate; to bulge out.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English swelle, from the verb swellen (modern swell).

Noun

swell (countable and uncountable, plural swells)

1. The act of swelling; increase in size.
2. A bulge or protuberance.
3. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
4. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
5. (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
6. (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
7. (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
8. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
9. (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
10. (informal, dated) A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.

    Synonyms: dandy, dude, toff; see also Thesaurus:dandy
11. (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.

    Synonym: toff
12. The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

    Synonyms: pommel, fork

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Etymology 3

From the noun "swell" (a person dressed in an elegant manner).

Adjective

swell (not generally comparable, comparative sweller, superlative swellest)

1. (dated) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
2. (Canada, US, dated slang) Excellent.
   • 1927 Mar. 31, Ernest Hemingway, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald:

     ...you are my devoted friend too. You do more and work harder and oh shit I'd get maudlin about how damned swell you are. My god I'd like to see you... You're a hell of a good guy.

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Adverb

swell (not comparable)

1. (Canada, US, informal) Very well.

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Anagrams

• Wells, wells

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English swellan.

Verb

swell

1. alternative form of swellen

Etymology 2

From the verb swellen.

Adverb

swell

1. alternative form of swelle

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English swell.

Noun

swell m (plural swells)

1. (surfing) swell (series of waves)