Associations to the word «Swain»

Wiktionary

SWAIN, noun. (obsolete) A young man or boy in service; a servant.
SWAIN, noun. (obsolete) A knight's servant; an attendant.
SWAIN, noun. (archaic) A country labourer; a countryman, a rustic.
SWAIN, noun. (poetic) A rural lover; a male sweetheart in a pastoral setting.
SWAIN, proper noun. A surname​.

Dictionary definition

SWAIN, noun. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman; "if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats