English Explanatory Dictionary

Sween

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Word forms

Sween Sweens

Etymology

* As an Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, reduced form of McSween. * As a Norwegian surname, variant of Sveen, from Old Norse svíð (“land cleared by burning”), from svíða (“to burn”).

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