bank swallow

Questions about bank swallow

What is another word for bank swallow?

It depends which bank swallow you mean. In the sense “swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks”, the synonyms are bank martin, sand martin, Riparia riparia. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of bank swallow?

WordNet records no antonym for bank swallow. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for bank swallow come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of bank swallow

• Full entry for bank swallowAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for bank swallowWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.