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My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.
Hans Rosling

Meaning of "sword-swallower" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SWORD-SWALLOWER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SWORD-SWALLOWER

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Sword-Swallower is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SWORD-SWALLOWER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of sword-swallower in the English dictionary

The definition of sword-swallower in the dictionary is a performer who simulates the swallowing of swords.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SWORD-SWALLOWER

sword dance
sword dancer
sword dancing
sword fern
sword fight
sword grass
sword knot
sword lily
Sword of Damocles
sword-point
swordbearer
swordbill
swordcraft
sworder
swordfish
swordless
swordlike
swordplay
swordplayer
swordproof

WORDS THAT END LIKE SWORD-SWALLOWER

bellflower
bird-of-paradise flower
blower
cam follower
cauliflower
cornflower
flower
follower
glower
lower
mayflower
passionflower
power
safflower
snowblower
sunflower
the Mayflower
wallflower
whistle blower
whistle-blower
wild flower

Synonyms and antonyms of sword-swallower in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «sword-swallower» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SWORD-SWALLOWER

Find out the translation of sword-swallower to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sword-swallower from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sword-swallower» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

剑吞
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tragasables
570 millions of speakers

English

sword-swallower
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

तलवार swallower
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

السيف المبتلع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

меч - Swallower
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

engolidor de espadas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তরোয়াল গিলে ফেলার ভেল্কি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

avaleur de sabres
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pedang-swallower
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schwertschlucker
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

剣飲み込む
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

칼 swallower
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pedhang-swallower
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thanh kiếm swallower
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வாள் swallower
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तलवार-दाता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kılıç swallower
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spada - swallower
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

swallower mieczem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

меч- Swallower
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sabie - swallower
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σπαθί - καταπίνων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

swaard slikker
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sword - swallower
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sverdsluker
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sword-swallower

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sword-swallower

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Hans Rosling
My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWORD-SWALLOWER»

Discover the use of sword-swallower in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sword-swallower and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Memoirs of a Sword Swallower
The "tricks" behind eating fire and swallowing swords are explicated with clarity and candor. This book will appeal to all who speculate about the outer limits of pain, pleasure, and revulsion.
Daniel P. Mannix, 1996
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Popular Science
Sword Swallower X-RAYED SCIENCE ALSO GIVES INSIDE DOPE ON GLASS- AND-TACKS EATERS AND OTHER CIRCUS FREAKS Here's your chance to " see through" a perfor once that astonishes thousands every year. At the left, above, ...
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Nezhat's History of Endoscopy: A Historical Analysis of ...
SWORD-SWALLOWING AS THERAPY: ADOLF KUSSMAUL, THE SWORD- SWALLOWER, AND THE FIRST DIRECT ESOPHAGO-GASTROSCOPY Though early 19th century laryngoscopists devised some of the most advanced and ...
Camran Nezhat, M.D., 2011
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Digestive Endoscopy in the Second Millennium: From the ...
Practically all historians have attributed the performance of the first oesophagoscopies and gastroscopies to Kussmaul, after his well-known observations on the technique of a professional sword swallower. His assistant, Muller, had ...
Francisco Vilardell, 2006
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The Blueprint for LSAT Logic Games
If the bearded lady is not on stage 2, the sword swallower must be on stage 1. We also know that if the sword swallower isn't on stage 1, the bearded lady will be found on stage 2. If the bearded lady is not on stage 2, then the sword swallower  ...
Blueprint LSAT Preparation, Matthew Riley, 2013
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POEMS from the MUD ROOM
The wife of the sword swallower was mine way back when but the bottom dropped out when battle lines were drawn and I left her flat, sleeping in wombs where I found them To this day her eyes dilate when we're face to face Her parting words ...
Howard Camner, 2013
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The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology
For instance, in sword swallower, the constituent sword functions as the Patient- argument of the verb swallow. In order to understand this semantic regularity, we must look in more detail at how semantic roles are linked to verbs. Verbs assign ...
Geert Booij, 2012
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Secrets of the Sideshows
Houdini (1920, 143) noted, "The medical profession now make use of this idea." Eventually, this led to the idea of using a neon tube. Ward Hall suggests that a female sword swallower named "Lady Patricia" — Patricia Zerm — was the first to  ...
Joe Nickell, 2005
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Kevin Kling's Holiday Inn
“See the amazing Popeye, the Sword Swallower, and Ape Lady, found in the wilds of the Amazon, descended from the lost species, Orangutangus maximus, the missing link.” Ted says, “I would like to see dis missing link.” “Are you sure, Ted?
Kevin Kling, 2009
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Interaction Ritual: Essays in Face to Face Behavior
As has been suggested, a similar 111 See D. Mannix, Memoirs of a Sword Swallower (New York, Ballantine Books, 1964), pp. 94-98. predicament occurs under limited time conditions. Mal- adroitness can waste 228 INTERACTION RITUAL.
Erving Goffman, 2005

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SWORD-SWALLOWER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sword-swallower is used in the context of the following news items.
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City Spectacular festival to welcome sword swallower, strongwoman …
This year organisers are adding a record-breaking sword swallower, ... fan favourites - sword-swallower and blind-folded chainsaw juggler The Space Cowboy, ... «Irish Independent, Jun 15»
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Aussie sword-swallower Chayne Hultgren arrested while busking in …
AN acclaimed Aussie sword-swallower was arrested while busking in New York ... "I don't care if you are a sword swallower, you were holding a sword in public ... «NEWS.com.au, Aug 11»
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Canton woman a world-famous sword-swallower
Edith Bauer, who ran a grocery store after retiring here with her husband in the 1920s, had performed sword-swallowing under the stage name of Edith Clifford. «Canton Repository, Nov 10»

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