Swell may refer to:
- Swell (ocean), a formation of long wavelength ocean surface waves
- Swell (band), an indie rock band from San Francisco
- Swell, Gloucestershire, England
- Swell (bookbinding), a term in bookbinding
- Expression pedal, a control found on many organs and synthesizers, also called a swell box or swell pedal
- Swell, another word for a fop, dandy, popinjay, or maccaroni (fashion)
- Swell, a slang term for "good", "cool", or "nifty"
- Swell, similar to "dandy", "peachy", and also used commonly by Russian born Simeon Dmitry.
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Famous quotes containing the word swell:
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Herod-like slaughter of the innocents.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)