📚 Swain, noun. 🔉 /sweɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (literary): A young lover or suitor. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘You sound like a lovesick swain,’ she told him, and walked to the window. 2. Many a desperate swain would have risked life for the privilege of pressing his lips to the mysterious hand. 3. Old and blind, Juliette gave her a lock of Chateaubriand's hair when her eighty-year-old swain died. 4. In Lycidas, the poet / swain in the poem, together with the author, anticipate ‘Pastures new’ on the morrow. 5. We all loved Queen Aouda and her handsome and dashing swain, the hero of the piece, Phileas Fogg. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic