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Meaning of "sewan" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SEWAN

ˈsiːwən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEWAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sewan is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SEWAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sewant

Sewant is the black and/or dark purple black shell bead system of the 17th century in Nieuw Nederlandt of what is currently the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Delaware. This fiat currency system was introduced to the English at Plymouth Colony Plantations in 1627. One black Sewant is equal to two white wampum. The sewant is tied to the stiver, denarius of England, ore, daler, real, livre. 20 stiver = 24d or 1 stiver = 1.2d. Sewant is the Dutch rendering of what the Native Americans in the 1600s of what is now New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts called the purple and white parts of the Quahog shell when made into beads, used as money and trade between the Dutch, Native Americans, English, French, and other people. The money was of the Dutch money system, and translated into the different European and Native American trade and money systems at the time, around the 1620s to 1660s.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SEWAN

ajwan · Kechuan · Namaquan · Quechuan · Quichuan · Saskatchewan · seawan

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEWAN

sew up · sewability · sewable · sewage · sewage disposal · sewage farm · sewage gas · sewage pipe · sewage treatment works · sewage works · sewar · Seward · Seward Peninsula · sewed · sewel · Sewell · sewellel · sewen · sewer · sewer gas

WORDS THAT END LIKE SEWAN

Aswan · bhawan · black swan · cowan · deewan · dewan · diwan · hwan · Iowan · Jawan · McEwan · mute swan · North Saskatchewan · Palawan · rowan · South Saskatchewan · swan · Szechwan · Taiwan · wan

Synonyms and antonyms of sewan in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «sewan» into 25 languages

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sewan
1,325 millions of speakers
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sewan
570 millions of speakers
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sewan
510 millions of speakers
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sewan
380 millions of speakers
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sewan
280 millions of speakers
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sewan
278 millions of speakers
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Sewan
270 millions of speakers
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sewan
260 millions of speakers
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Sewan
220 millions of speakers
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Sewan
190 millions of speakers
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Sewan
180 millions of speakers
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sewan
130 millions of speakers
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sewan
85 millions of speakers
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Sewan
85 millions of speakers
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sewan
80 millions of speakers
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sewan
75 millions of speakers
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सेवान
75 millions of speakers
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sewan
70 millions of speakers
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Sewan
65 millions of speakers
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Sewan
50 millions of speakers
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sewan
40 millions of speakers
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sewan
30 millions of speakers
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Sewan
15 millions of speakers
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sewan
14 millions of speakers
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sewan
10 millions of speakers
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Sewan
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sewan

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEWAN»

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First Encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936
In 1884, the Russian frontier was definitely closed to the Shah-sewan and at the same time the Russian nomads (Perembel, Darwisjjlu) were forbidden to descend into Persia. This measure dealt a blow to the prosperity of the Shah- sewan, but ...
‎1993
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Family Life in Native America
Sewan (loose beads) were made in flat disks of clam or oyster shell and as cylindrical beads, in either white or dark blue (sometimes called black), taken from the conch (welck) or the quahaug clam, respectively. When strung together the ...
James M. Volo, Dorothy Denneen Volo, 2007
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Geomorphology and Environmental Sustainability: Felicitation ...
Felicitation Volume in Honour of Professor H.S. Sharma. chiefly confined to the closures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. This sewan grass also grows more profusely in sandy soil areas. In the last over ten years these grasses occupied an indomitable area  ...
‎2005
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History of the City of New York in the Seventeenth Century
Therefore all persons were forbidden under penalty of 'ten guilders for the poor' to pay out or to receive unpolished sewan except at the rate of six beads for a stiver. 'Well- poHshed sewan' was to remain at its former value, four beads to a ...
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, 2013
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The History Of Hindostan: From The Earliest Account Of Time, ...
Humaioon, in the mean time, had, with his little army, laid siege Humaiooa to Sewan, for seven months, without effect, when Shaw Hassein, de- sewan" sirous of getting the place into his own hands, advanced, with a great force, from Tatta, ...
Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū-Šāh Astarābādī Firišta, Alexander Dow, 1768
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O Brave New Words!: Native American Loanwords in Current English
1843); redwood or giant sequoia Sequoiadendron - (etym. above); a genus of coniferous trees Sequoia pitch moth - (etym. above); a clearwing moth whose larvae are especially destructive to lodgepole pine and western yellow pine sewan ...
Charles L. Cutler, 2000
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Narratives of New Netherland
Here also they have built a shallop, in order to go and look after the trade in sewan, in Sloup's Bay and thereabouts, because they are afraid to pass Cape Mallabaer, and in order to avoid the length of the way; which I have prevented for this ...
John Jameson, 2009
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Three Visitors to Early Plymouth
They have a chief Sackima whom they choose by election, who generally is he who is richest in sewan, though of less consideration in other respects. When any stranger comes, they bring him to the Sackima. On first meeting they do not ...
John Pory, 1997
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Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, &c. ...
SEWAN-PA-INE. 51 refreShments their abstinence allows. The place we had seen, is still known by the appellation of the Cave of the Forty Daughters ,- a presumption that the devotees spoken ot' were of the female sex, which throws the ...
‎1821
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The History of Ancient Windsor Connecticut: Including East ...
who are bow resident at Quenticutt, all our right and interest in the foresaid ground, for and in consideration of twenty cloth coats, and fifteen fathoms of sewan [wampum] of which there being paid in hand eight coats and six fathoms of sewan, ...
Henry R. Stiles, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEWAN»

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Télécoms : Sewan complète son réseau de vente
Sewan Communications fait un pas de plus vers le marché des ETI. L'opérateur parisien de services de télécommunications pour les PME vient d'acheter son ... «Les Échos, Jul 15»
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Sewan Communications acquires Iperlink
French B2B operator Sewan Communications has announced the acquisition for an undisclosed amount of Iperlink, a Lyon-based integrator of voice, data and ... «Telecompaper, Jul 15»
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#Cloud : Fondé en 2007, le Groupe Sewan lève 2,5 millions d'euros …
Créé en 2007, le Groupe Sewan, leader des communications d'entreprises dans le Cloud, annonce une seconde levée de fonds à hauteur de 2,5 millions ... «Maddyness, Jul 15»
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Sewan Communications raises EUR 2.5 million
French networking, cloud and telecom service provider Sewan Communications has raised EUR 2.5 million from pension fund Audacia to fund its development. «Telecompaper, Jul 15»
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Sewan Communication poursuit sa croissance et annonce l …
Après le rachat de Navaho l'an passé, Sewan Communication annonce, par la voix de son PDG Alexis de Goriainof, l'acquisition d'Iperlink. (Crédit : D.R). «Distributique, Jul 15»
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Das VOLKSTHEATER ROSTOCK in der zweiten Spielzeit von …
Nach über einem Jahr am Volkstheater Rostock schätzt Intendant Sewan Latchinian seine erste Spielzeit als sehr positiv ein. Das Hauptziel, eine neue ... «Szene Rostock, Jul 15»
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Barbarei auf hohem Niveau
Der entlassene und später wieder eingesetzte Rostocker Intendant Sewan Latchinian über kurzsichtige Kulturpolitik und ein Volkstheater, das diesen Namen ... «neues deutschland, May 15»
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Volkstheater Rostock : Latchinian wieder im Amt
Der auf Beschluss der Rostocker Bürgerschaft zurückgeholte Theaterintendant Sewan Latchinian hat seine Arbeit am Volkstheater wieder aufgenommen. «Norddeutsche Neueste Nachrichten, May 15»
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Volkstheater Rostock: Eigentlich unverzeihlich
In Rostock tobt seit Wochen ein Kampf um den Intendanten des Theaters, Sewan Latchinian. Wie konnte es so weit kommen? Ein Besuch in seinem Exil von ... «ZEIT ONLINE, May 15»
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Volkstheater: OB legt Widerspruch gegen Wiedereinstellung von …
Volkstheater: OB legt Widerspruch gegen Wiedereinstellung von Sewan ... Wochen getroffene Entscheidung zur Weiterbeschäftigung von Sewan Latchinian als ... «Rostock-Heute, Apr 15»
REFERENCE
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