Meanings
nounSwabe (plural Swabes)
plural Swabes
- archaicrareA Swabian.
A Brandenburgher will hardly understand a Misnian, or a Swabe either of them.
1745, Thomas Salmon, Modern History Or the Present State of All Nations, volume 2, page 291 more example
[…] the same horse had once carried two travelling Swabes from Kosteinitza to Sarajewo […]
c. 1846-1848, an Austrian medical office [name not given], "A Peep at Bosnia", in Sharpe's London Magazine, volume 2/3
Origin
Compare German Schwabe.
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
APA
Swabe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Swabe
MLA
“Swabe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Swabe. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Swabe,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Swabe.
Source: Swabe on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.