swan song

1. 1.

   a final performance or effort (especially before retirement)

   Synonymslast hurrah

   Broaderperformance

Questions about swan song

What does swan song mean?

swan song means "a final performance or effort (especially before retirement)".

What is another word for swan song?

Close synonyms include last hurrah. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swan song a common word?

swan song is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.