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Definition swell

Etymology 1

From Middle English swellen, from Old English swellan (“to swell”), from Proto-Germanic *swellan? (“to swell”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Old Frisian swella, Low German swellen, Dutch zwellen (“to swell”), German schwellen (“to swell”), Swedish svälla (“to swell”), Icelandic svella. The adjective may derive from the noun.

Verb

swell (third-person singular simple present swells, present participle swelling, simple past swelled or swole or swoll, past participle swollen or swelled)

1. (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
2. (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
3. (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
4. (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
5. (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
6. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
7. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
8. To protuberate; to bulge out.

Etymology 2

From Middle English swelle, from the verb swellen (modern swell).

Noun

swell (countable and uncountable, plural swells)

1. The act of swelling; increase in size.
2. A bulge or protuberance.
3. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
4. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
5. (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
6. (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
7. (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
8. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
9. (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
10. (informal, dated) A person who dresses in a fancy or elegant manner.
11. (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.

Etymology 3

From the noun "swell" (a person dressed in an elegant manner).

Adjective

swell (not generally comparable, comparative sweller, superlative swellest)

1. (dated) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
2. (Canada, US, informal, dated) Excellent.

Adverb

swell (not comparable)

1. (Canada, US, informal) Very well.

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