swath
Meaning of swath
noun
- a broad strip or area of something.
vast swathes of countryside
a significant swathe of popular opinion
- a row or line of grass, corn, or other crop as it falls or lies when mown or reaped.
if the day is windy, the swathes should be high and narrow
swathes of barley
Old English swæth, swathu ‘track, trace’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch zwad(e ) and German Schwade . In Middle English the term denoted a measure of the width of grassland, probably reckoned by a sweep of the mower's scythe.
Information about swath
- It is a name.
- The plural form of swath is: swaths.
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Hyphenation of swath
swath
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- swath is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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