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silver
/ˈsɪl.vɚ/
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What does silver mean?
noun
- A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag.
- Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.
- Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.
More meanings (22)
noun
- Any items made from silver or any other white metal.
- A shiny gray color.
- A silver medal.
- Anything resembling silver; something shiny and white.
adjective
- Made from silver.
- Made from another white metal.
- Having a color like silver: a shiny gray.
- Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary, especially of a wedding.
- Premium, but inferior to gold.
- Pertaining or relating to elderly persons.
- Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.
verb
- To acquire a silvery colour.
- To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal.
- To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
- To make hoary, or white, like silver.
proper noun
- An English surname originating as an occupation for a silversmith or a rich man, or for someone having silvery gray hair or living by a silvery brook.
- A surname from German.
- A unisex given name from English from the metal, or transferred from the surname.
- A community in the Rural Municipality of Armstrong, Manitoba, Canada, named after N. T. Silver.
- A township in Cherokee County, Iowa, United States.
- A township in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States, named after Silver Creek.
- An unincorporated community in Coke County, Texas, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
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Finally the morning dawned pearly and lustrous in a sky full of silver sheen and radiance, and the wonderful day had arrived.
Within a short time she was walking briskly toward the Emerald City, her silver shoes tinkling merrily on the hard, yellow road-bed.
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We rummaged the clothes we’d got, and found eight dollars in silver sewed up in the lining of an old blanket overcoat.
She was enveloped in a loose dressing-gown of blue and silver, but a black sequin-covered dinner-dress lay upon the couch beside her.
The HISPANIOLA was under her main-sail and two jibs, and the beautiful white canvas shone in the sun like snow or silver.