Sekirov Dictionary

silver

UK /ˈsɪl.və/US /ˈsɪl.vɚ/

noun 7
adjective 7
verb 4
forms 8
phrases 9

noun7

a valuable metal that is white and shiny, used to make rings and other things people wear
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A shiny gray color.
- I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana. — 2017
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Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.
- […] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver. — 1990
Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.
Any items made from silver or any other white metal.
A silver medal.
Anything resembling silver; something shiny and white.

adjective7

Made from silver.
Having a color like silver: a shiny gray.
Made from another white metal.
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Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary, especially of a wedding.
- Mostly, these have been relationships of 10 or less years. However, one respondent has celebrated her silver wedding anniversary. — 1994
Premium, but inferior to gold.
Pertaining or relating to elderly persons.
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Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.
- a silver-voiced young girl

verb4

To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal.
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To acquire a silvery colour.
- Presently all the eastern sky began to silver and shine, and objects before invisible in the west—chiefly the tall towers on Mount Zion—emerged as from a shadowy depth, [...] — 1880
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To make hoary, or white, like silver.
- Remote from cities liv'd a Swain, / Unvex'd with all the cares of gain, / His head was silver'd o'er with age, / And long experience made him sage; [...] — 1727
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To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
- For here retir'd the sinking billows sleep, / And smiling calmness silver'd o'er the deep. — 1725

forms

silvered · silvering · silvereth · silvers · silverest · more silver · most silver · silverest

Phrases with silver

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