sword

Summary

sword is a weapon type^[1]. sword ranks in the top 5% of weapon_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (972 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• sword's image is recorded as Albion Hospitaller Medieval Sword 1 (6092737619) (II).jpg^[3].
• sword's instance of is recorded as weapon type^[4].
• sword's GND ID is recorded as 4053972-6^[5].
• sword's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85131359^[6].
• sword's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11958747d^[7].
• sword's subclass of is recorded as piercing-cutting weapon^[8].
• sword's subclass of is recorded as edged and bladed weapon^[9].
• sword's Commons category is recorded as Swords^[10].
• sword's pronunciation audio is recorded as De-Schwert.ogg^[11].
• sword's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 19034^[12].
• sword's has part is recorded as blade^[13].
• sword's has part is recorded as hilt^[14].
• sword's has part is recorded as handle^[15].
• sword's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06y5r^[16].
• sword's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph115297^[17].
• sword's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Swords^[18].
• sword's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Individual swords^[19].
• sword's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300037048^[20].
• sword's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 623.441^[21].
• sword's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 6350^[22].
• sword's Iconclass notation is recorded as 45C13(SWORD)^[23].
• sword's described by source is recorded as Vlastenský slovník historický^[24].
• sword's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng^[25].
• sword's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[26].
• sword's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for sword include kendo^[28], a type of sport^[29], in Japan^[30]; kenjutsu^[31], a jutsu^[32], in Japan^[33]; Xiphactinus^[34], a fossil taxon^[35]; Espada^[36], a fictional group of characters^[37]; uranospathite^[38], a mineral species^[39]; and Mech^[40], a television series^[41], directed by Viktor Konisevich^[42].

Why It Matters

sword ranks in the top 5% of weapon_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (972 views/month).^[2] sword has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[43] sword is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[44]

Entities named for sword include kendo^[28], a type of sport^[29], in Japan^[30]; kenjutsu^[31], a jutsu^[32], in Japan^[33]; Xiphactinus^[34], a fossil taxon^[35]; Espada^[36], a fictional group of characters^[37]; uranospathite^[38], a mineral species^[39]; and Mech^[40], a television series^[41], directed by Viktor Konisevich^[42].