Overview of noun swift

The noun swift has 4 senses

• Swift, Gustavus Franklin Swift -- (United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903))


• Swift, Jonathan Swift, Dean Swift -- (an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745))


• swift -- (a small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight)


• western fence lizard, swift, blue-belly, Sceloporus occidentalis -- (common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks)

Overview of adj swift

The adj swift has 1 sense

• fleet, swift -- (moving very fast; "fleet of foot"; "the fleet scurrying of squirrels"; "a swift current"; "swift flight of an arrow"; "a swift runner")