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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
swede
noun
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▪ A girl pulling swedes in a field senses the shadow of parachutes and gapes up, knees braced and hair tangling.
▪ A member of the Brassica family, it requires the same fine, neutral, humus-rich seed-bed as swedes.
▪ All these crops are for feeding the farm stock, the swedes often being grazed insitu during the winter.
▪ Always choose a bright swede over a dull one.
▪ I have occasionally grown a field of kale and swedes in alternating six-row bouts for strip grazing.
▪ One family in the Borders was growing 7.5 ha of swedes for human consumption.
▪ Their favourites are sugar beet, turnips and swedes where these are still available.
▪ Today's main dish was cabbage and swede stew with dumplings.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swede

Swede \Swede\, n. [Cf. G. Schwede.]

  1. A native or inhabitant of Sweden.

  2. (Bot.) A Swedish turnip. See under Turnip.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Swede

"native of Sweden," 1610s, from Low German, from Middle Low German Swede, from a source akin to Old English Sweoðeod, literally "Swede-people," from Sweon (plural) "Swedes" (Old Norse, Old Swedish Sviar), called by the Romans Suiones, probably from Proto-Germanic *sweba "free, independent," or else from *geswion "kinsman."

Wiktionary
swede

n. 1 (context chiefly British English) The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rape, ''Brassica napus'', resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable. 2 The plant from which this is obtained. 3 (context Scotland Ireland Northern England English) The turnip.

Wikipedia
Swede

Swede or Swedes may refer to:

Swede (nickname)

Swede is a nickname for:

  • Marvin Swede Ellstrom (1906–1994), American National Football League player
  • Rudolph Swede Hagberg (1907–1960), American National Football League player
  • Harvey Swede Halbrook (1933–1988), American National Basketball Association player
  • Andy Hansen (1924-2002), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Tom Swede Hanson (American football) (1907–1985), American National Football League player
  • Robert Swede Hanson (wrestler) (1933–2002), American professional wrestler
  • Chester Swede Johnston (1910–2002), American National Football League player
  • Swede Knox (born 1948), Canadian hockey linesman
  • Swede Larson (c. 1899-1945), 23rd head football coach for the United States Naval Academy
  • Charles Momsen (1896–1967), American pioneer in submarine rescue and US Navy vice admiral
  • Harry Swede Nordstrom (1896–1963), American football player
  • Andy Oberlander (1905–1968), All-American football halfback
  • Erwin Righter (1897–1985), college football and basketball player and coach
  • Charles Swede Risberg (1894–1975), American Major League Baseball player
  • David Swede Savage (1946–1973), American race car driver
  • Adolph Swede Youngstrom (1897–1968), American National Football League player

Usage examples of "swede".

So he commenced to bargain, and in the end the person of Meriem passed from the possession of the black chieftain into that of the two Swedes in consideration of six yards of Amerikan, three empty brass cartridge shells and a shiny, new jack knife from New Jersey.

Swedes, in Pensylvania and New Jersey, they made ropes of this apocynum, which the Swedes bought, and employed them as bridles, and for nets.

Gabi Semmler, a thirty-year-old Berliner who worked as a private secretary to an air charter company with which the Swede wanted to do business.

Swedes cryptanalyzed other German military messages that, put together, spelled an invasion of Russia between June 20 and 25.

To Earl Erik were to be given all the shires along the western coast from Finmark to Lindesness, with the exception of seven shires allotted to Olaf the Swede King.

Swede at the Gothenburg printers was assigned to look after her while the magazine was produced.

Swenson, the canny Swede who had dreamed up Hellmouth, had picked well.

Swede, a third-generation Ukrainian, and a third-generation Hutzul, with some Irish, English, Scots, Cherokee, and German thrown in for leavening.

Swede, who seemed to be in his well-weathered forties, could remember a famous khamseen of the past that had blown for eight days.

Belgians, Frenchmen, Americans, Norwegians, Swedes, Rumanians, Poles, etc.

Thus I saw what I took to be Nepalese boys in the garb of urban American blacks talking to each other in Spanish, four Japanese girls wearing Andean headgear yabbering to each other in Magreb Arabic, Saree-covered Tolchucks conversing in Cantonese, Malay-speaking Rastafarians, Portuguese-giggling Sikhs, English-speaking Hindu Swedes, Urdu-chattering Nigerian Orthodox Rabbis.

Wismar, Rostock and Stralsund were already held by the Swedes and incorporated into the CPE, and it was fairly obvious to everyone that Luebeck was going to join them in the end.

Lone wondered sometimes what the Sawtooth meant to do about the Swede, but so far the Sawtooth seemed inclined to do nothing at all, evidently thinking his war on animal pests more than atoned for his effrontery in taking Skyline as a homestead.

Gustavus Adolphus, but I would give ten tenners to have had your place and your shillalah,--a Swede for a match-lock, but an Irishman for a stick.

To the west lay Hango and Turku, ancient seafaring towns that had both seen invaders come and go-Russians, Swedes and Germans.