From this word meaning boy, young male or servant, are derived:
The noun
swain, meaning a rustic lover or boyfriend, cf. the numerous examples in
Shakespeare's work, including his lyric, "[w]ho is Sylvia, what is she that all our Swains commend her" (from The Two Gentlemen of Verona) and "O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain;" (from King Henry VI)
There are also specific nautical words involving swain:
boatswain (literally "young man in charge of a boat") which can be seen in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and
coxswain.
The American Old West outlaw
John Wesley Hardin used various aliases with Swain as the surname.
This page lists people with the
surnameSwain. If an
internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that
link by adding the person's
given name(s) to the link.
From this word meaning boy, young male or servant, are derived:
The noun
swain, meaning a rustic lover or boyfriend, cf. the numerous examples in
Shakespeare's work, including his lyric, "[w]ho is Sylvia, what is she that all our Swains commend her" (from The Two Gentlemen of Verona) and "O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain;" (from King Henry VI)
There are also specific nautical words involving swain:
boatswain (literally "young man in charge of a boat") which can be seen in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and
coxswain.
The American Old West outlaw
John Wesley Hardin used various aliases with Swain as the surname.
This page lists people with the
surnameSwain. If an
internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that
link by adding the person's
given name(s) to the link.