SWEDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Swede mean? 

• SWEDE (noun)
  The noun SWEDE has 3 senses:

1. a native or inhabitant of Sweden

2. a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root

3. the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food

  Familiarity information: SWEDE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWEDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Sweden

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Swede" is a kind of...):

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Holonyms ("Swede" is a member of...):

Kingdom of Sweden; Sverige; Sweden (a Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Brassica napus napobrassica; rutabaga; rutabaga plant; swede; Swedish turnip; turnip cabbage

Hypernyms ("swede" is a kind of...):

turnip plant (any of several widely cultivated plants having edible roots)

Meronyms (parts of "swede"):

rutabaga; swede; swedish turnip; yellow turnip (the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food)

Holonyms ("swede" is a member of...):

Brassica; genus Brassica (mustards: cabbages; cauliflowers; turnips; etc.)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

rutabaga; swede; swedish turnip; yellow turnip

Hypernyms ("swede" is a kind of...):

turnip (root of any of several members of the mustard family)

Holonyms ("swede" is a part of...):

Brassica napus napobrassica; rutabaga; rutabaga plant; swede; Swedish turnip; turnip cabbage (a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root)

 Context examples 

“I’ll do for you yet, you slab-footed Swede,” I heard him say to Johansen one night on deck.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Hans Nelson, immigrant, Swede by birth and carpenter by occupation, had in him that Teutonic unrest that drives the race ever westward on its great adventure.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

That's my middle west—not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns but the thrilling, returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)