WordNet Search - 3.1

Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations

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Noun

S: (n) Swift, Gustavus Franklin Swift (United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903))

S: (n) Swift, Jonathan Swift, Dean Swift (an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745))
S: (n) swift (a small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight)

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direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term

S: (n) apodiform bird (nonpasserine bird having long wings and weak feet; spends much of its time in flight)

S: (n) bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

S: (n) vertebrate, craniate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)

S: (n) chordate (any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column)

S: (n) animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

S: (n) organism, being (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

S: (n) living thing, animate thing (a living (or once living) entity)

S: (n) whole, unit (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity) "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"

S: (n) object, physical object (a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow) "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects"

S: (n) physical entity (an entity that has physical existence)

S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))

derivationally related form

S: (n) western fence lizard, swift, blue-belly, Sceloporus occidentalis (common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks)

Adjective

S: (adj) fleet, swift (moving very fast) "fleet of foot"; "the fleet scurrying of squirrels"; "a swift current"; "swift flight of an arrow"; "a swift runner"