Cygnet Definition

sĭgnĭt
noun
A young swan.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cygnet

Noun

Singular:
cygnet
Plural:
cygnets

Origin of Cygnet

  • From Middle English cignet, signet, from Anglo-Norman cignet, diminutive of Old French cigne (“swan”), from Latin cygnus, cycnus (“swan”), from Ancient Greek κύκνος (kýknos, “swan”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English cignet from Anglo-Norman diminutive of Old French cygne swan from Latin cygnus from Greek kuknos

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cygnet Sentence Examples

  • She danced her first cygnet this season. it was overwhelming.

  • In 1688 Davis cleared Cape Horn and arrived in the West Indies, while Swan's ship, the "Cygnet," was abandoned as unseaworthy, after sailing as far as Madagascar.

  • The pen, named Sally by local people, nested at the Penny Pond in 1996 and had one cygnet.

  • The first English navigator to sight the Australian continent was William Dampier, who made a visit to these shores in 1688, as supercargo of the " Cygnet," a trader whose crew had turned buccaneers.

  • The gunboats Beacon, Bittern, Condor, Cygnet and Decoy were to keep out of fire at first and seek opportunities of engaging the Meks batteries.

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