Definition of Dean Swift

1. Noun. An English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745).

Exact synonyms: Jonathan Swift, Swift
Generic synonyms: Ironist, Ridiculer, Satirist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dean Swift

Dead Sea
Dead Sea apple
Dead Sea apples
Dead Sea scrolls
Deadhead
Deadheads
Deaf
Deaflympian
Deaflympians
Deaflympics
Dean's fluorosis index
Dean Acheson
Dean Gooderham Acheson
Dean Martin
Dean Swift (current term)
Deane
Deang
Deanna
Deans
Dear John letter
Dear John letters
Dearborn
Dearborns
Deason
Death
Death Valley
Death Valley driver
Deaver's incision
Debadutta

Literary usage of Dean Swift

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... An angel quick from Heaven descends, A,nd he at once the contest ends : EPISTLE TO ROBERT NUGENT, ESQ. T»ITB A PICTURE OP Dean Swift. IY DR. ..."

2. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"... 13s, Life of Dean Swift, by Thos. Dilworth. Lond. ... Dean Swift for ever; or Mary the Cook Maid to the Earl of Orrery. Lond. 1752, folio. ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"AN INEDITED LETTER OF Dean Swift. ... Dean Swift, made about forty years ago, has lately been found among my papers. I was shown the original by my relative ..."

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