Skip to content
OneKitly

Swede

nounattested in dialogue

  • //swiːd//

A person from Sweden or of Swedish descent.

noun

  1. 1

    A person from Sweden or of Swedish descent.

    For the past nine years Swedes have been frustrated by foreign submarines probing their coastal waters.

  2. 2

    historicalA member of an ancient North Germanic tribe that inhabited central Sweden.

Etymology

From Middle Low German Swêde, from a Germanic word akin to Old Norse Svíþjóð, Old English Swēoþēod (“Sweden”, literally “Swede nation”), itself from Swēo (“Swede”), from Proto-Germanic *swihô (“Swede”). Cognate with Dutch Zweed, German Schwede. Doublet of suede.

Forms

plural
Swedes
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).