"swede" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /swiːd/ Audio: En-au-swede.ogg [Australia] Forms: swedes [plural]
Rhymes: -iːd Etymology: From the earlier term Swedish turnip, because the Swedes introduced the plant to the English in the 1700s. Head templates: {{en-noun}} swede (plural swedes)
  1. (chiefly British) The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rape, Brassica napus var. napobrassica, resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable. Tags: British Categories (lifeform): Brassicas, Root vegetables
    Sense id: en-swede-en-noun-m0bcwdrK Disambiguation of Brassicas: 30 20 22 16 12 Disambiguation of Root vegetables: 24 18 21 16 21 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 20 24 20 16
  2. The plant from which this is obtained. Categories (lifeform): Root vegetables Synonyms (plant): rutabaga [Canada, US]
    Sense id: en-swede-en-noun-y6xIejcd Disambiguation of Root vegetables: 24 18 21 16 21 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 20 24 20 16 Disambiguation of 'plant': 19 81 0 0
  3. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) The turnip. Tags: Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland Categories (topical): Film Categories (lifeform): Root vegetables
    Sense id: en-swede-en-noun-sqeC0hDk Disambiguation of Film: 14 13 39 15 19 Disambiguation of Root vegetables: 24 18 21 16 21 Categories (other): Irish English, Northern England English, Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 20 24 20 16 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 22 16 30 18 14
  4. (UK, slang) The head. Tags: UK, slang Categories (lifeform): Root vegetables Translations (slang: head): lanttu (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-swede-en-noun-Y~HP1lFs Disambiguation of Root vegetables: 24 18 21 16 21 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 20 24 20 16 Disambiguation of 'slang: head': 3 3 3 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: rutabaga [Canada, US] [vegetable, food, lifestyle], neep [Scotland] [vegetable, food, lifestyle], yellow turnip [US] [vegetable, food, lifestyle], winter turnip [vegetable, food, lifestyle] Derived forms: swede midge
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /swiːd/ Audio: En-au-swede.ogg [Australia] Forms: swedes [present, singular, third-person], sweding [participle, present], sweded [participle, past], sweded [past]
Rhymes: -iːd Etymology: Coined by Michel Gondry in the film Be Kind Rewind, from the claim that films produced in this way were imported from Sweden. Head templates: {{en-verb}} swede (third-person singular simple present swedes, present participle sweding, simple past and past participle sweded)
  1. To produce a low-budget remake of a film without the use of professional actors or filming techniques. Categories (topical): Food and drink Categories (lifeform): Root vegetables
    Sense id: en-swede-en-verb-ZJknPuoY Disambiguation of Food and drink: 17 0 0 0 83 Disambiguation of Root vegetables: 24 18 21 16 21 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 20 24 20 16
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b6/En-au-swede.ogg/En-au-swede.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/En-au-swede.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Be Kind Rewind",
    "Michel Gondry"
  ],
  "word": "swede"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.