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English
Etymology
From Middle English silver , selver , sulver , from Old English seolfor , seolofor ( “ silver ” ) , from Proto-West Germanic *silubr , from Proto-Germanic *silubrą ( “ silver ” ) , of uncertain origin.
cognates and etymology discussion
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Säälwer ( “ silver ” ) , West Frisian sulver ( “ silver ” ) , Dutch zilver ( “ silver ” ) , German Low German Silver , Sülver ( “ silver ” ) , German Silber ( “ silver ” ) , Swedish silver ( “ silver ” ) , Icelandic silfur ( “ silver ” ) . The Germanic word has parallels in Baltic and Slavic (Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро ( sĭrebro ) , Lithuanian sidabras ), Celtic (Celtiberian silaPur-), and outside Indo-European, in Basque zilar and Proto-Berber *a-ẓrəf , but the ultimate origin of the word is unknown.
Adjective sense of twenty-fifth wedding anniversary generalized from silver wedding , from German Silberhochzeit , silberne Hochzeit .
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Noun
silver (countable and uncountable , plural silvers )
( uncountable ) A lustrous , white, metallic element , atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag.
( collectively ) Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.
1990 , David F. Friedman, Don DeNevi, A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-film King , page 136 :[ …] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver .
( collectively ) Cutlery and other eating utensils , whether silver or made from some other white metal.
( collectively ) Any items made from silver or any other white metal.
( uncountable ) A shiny gray color .
2017 , Sam Shepard , chapter 27, in Spy of the First Person , →ISBN , page 62 :I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana.
silver:
( countable ) a silver medal
Anything resembling silver; something shiny and white.
1909 April 10 , H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells , “[The Time Machine and Other Stories]. The Beautiful Suit .”, in The Short Stories of H. G. Wells , London: Ernest Benn Limited , published September 1927, →OCLC , pages 162–163 :And next morning they found him dead, with his neck broken, in the bottom of the stone pit, with his beautiful clothes a little bloody, and foul and stained with the duckweed from the pond. But his face was a face of such happiness that, had you seen it, you would have understood indeed how that he had died happy, never knowing that cool and streaming silver for the duckweed in the pond.
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silver (comparative more silver , superlative most silver )
Silver Roman artwork
Made from silver .
1918 , W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell , chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp , Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company , →OCLC :He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
1959 , Georgette Heyer , chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax :But Richmond [ …] appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
Made from another white metal .
Having a color like silver: a shiny gray .
Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary , especially of a wedding .
1994 , “Mate matching” in Accent on Living , v 38, n 4 (Spring), p 52:
Mostly, these have been relationships of 10 or less years. However, one respondent has celebrated her silver wedding anniversary.
( of commercial services ) Premium , but inferior to gold .
Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.
a silver -voiced young girl
Synonyms
( made from silver ) : silvern ( archaic )
( having a color like silver ) : silvery
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Verb
silver (third-person singular simple present silvers , present participle silvering , simple past and past participle silvered )
To acquire a silvery colour.
1880 November 12, Lew[is] Wallace , chapter IV, in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ , New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers , , →OCLC , book sixth, page 416 :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, [...]
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers , “Silverside”, in The Younger Set , New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company , →OCLC , page 281 :But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal.
to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury
To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
1725 , Homer , “Book X”, in [Alexander Pope ], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. , volume III, London: Bernard Lintot , →OCLC , page 17 , lines 107–108 :For here retir'd the ſinking billows ſleep, / And ſmiling calmneſs ſilver'd o'er the deep.
To make hoary, or white, like silver.
1727 , [John] Gay , “Introduction to the Fables. The Shepherd and the Philosopher. ”, in Fables , 2nd edition, volume I, London: J Tonson and J. Watts, published 1728 , →OCLC :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; [...]
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30 pieces of silver ale silver antimonial silver bismuth-silver black silver born with a silver spoon in one's mouth Britannia silver bromic silver capillary silver cat-silver cat's silver Chinese silver code silver colloidal silver cross someone's palm with silver dark red silver ore desilver desilverise , desilverize every cloud has a silver lining every dark cloud has a silver lining every silver lining has a cloud flat silver flowered silver free silver fulminating silver German silver gilt silver gray silver horn silver iodic silver leaf-silver light red silver ore Long John Silver mock silver molybdic silver native silver new silver nickel silver , nickel-silver on a silver platter Pacific silver fir quicksilver reap-silver red silver reek-silver ruby silver sheep-silver shell silver silver age silver alert silver alum silver anniversary silver ash (Flindersia schottiana )silverback silver-backed fox silver ball silver balli silver band silver bar silver bass (Aplodinotus grunniens )silver bath silver beachweed silver-beater silver beech (Nothofagus menziesii , Lophozonia menziesii )silver beer silver beet (chard , Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris )silver-beggar silver bell , silver bell (Halesia spp.)silver bell tree , silver-bell tree , silverbell tree (Halesia )silver-belly silver bennet silver berry , silverberry (Elaeagnus spp.)silverbill (Lonchura spp.)silver birch (Betula pendula ))silver-black silver blond, silver blonde Silverblu , Silver Blu , Silver Blue silver book silverboom (Leucadendron argenteum )Silver Bow Silver Bow County silver box silver bream silver bromide silver bronze silver buckle silver bullet silver-bush , silverbush (Argythamnia , Convolvulus cneorum , Sophora tomentosa subsp. australis )silver carp silver ceiling silver certificate silver certificate silver chain silver char silver chickweed silver chloride silver chub silver city silver collection silver-colored , silver-coloured silver-copper nitrate silver cord silver cord silver cord is loosed Silver Creek Silver Creek silver doctor silver doctor silver dollar silver dollar silver dollar fish (Metynnis spp. etc.)silver-dun silver-eared mesia (Leiothrix argentauris )silvered silver eel (Ariosoma mellissii )silverer silverette silver eye , silver-eye , silvereye (Zosterops lateralis )silver-eyes silver-feast silver-feast , silver feast silver feather silver fern silver fern (Cyathea dealbata )silverfin (Cyprinella whipplei )silver fir (Abies spp; )silver fir (Abies spp,)silver fish , silver-fish , silverfish silver-fizz , silver fizz silver fluoride silver fluoride silver foil silver-footed silver-fork silver-fork deformity silver-fork fracture silver fork novel silver fox (Vulpes vulpes form)silver foxy silver-foxy silver frost silver fulminate silver gar silver garfish silver general silver gibbon silver-gilt silver gilt , silver-gilt silver glance , silver-glance silver glass silver goal silver goose silver grain , silver-grain silver grass , silver-grass (Miscanthus )silver gray , silver-gray , silvergray , silver grey , silver-grey silver-gray , silver-grey silver gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae )silver-haired silver hair-grass silver hake (Merluccius bilinearis )silver halide silver halide silver handshake silver-head silver-headed silver hell silver herb silver-hilted silverily silveriness silvering silver iodate silver iodide silver iodide silver iodide silverise , silverize silverish silverish silverism silverist silverite silver jenny silver jubilee silver jubilee silver king (Atlantic tarpon , Megalops atlanticus )silver knapweed (Centaurea cineraria )silver knight silver lace , silver-lace silver lace vine , silver-lace vine (Fallopia baldschuanica )silver lady , Silver Lady Silver Lake silver lamprey silver lavender silver lead , silver-lead silver leaf silver-leaf silver-leaf nettle (Solanum elaeagnifolium )silver-leaf nightshade (Solanum elaeagnifolium )silver-leaf poplar (Populus alba )silver-leaf tree (Leucadendron argenteum )silver-leaved silver-leaved bloodwood silver-leaved ironbark silver-leaved nightshade silverless silver-like silver lime (Tilia tomentosa )silver linden (Tilia tomentosa )silver line , silver lines silver-lined silverling silver lining silver luster , silver lustre silverly silver maple (Acer saccharinum )silver-marmoset silver medal silver medalist , silver medallist silver mine silver mine silver moth silver mound silver-mounted silvern silverness silver nitrate silver oak silver oak (Grevillea robusta , Brachylaena discolor )silver oar Silver Office silverol silver ore silver owl silver oxide silver paper silver paper silver parachute silver perch silver perch (Bairdiella chrysoura , Bidyanus bidyanus , Leiopotherapon plumbeus )silver pheasant silver piece silver pike (Esox lucius form)silver pine , silver pine tree (Manoao colensoi )silver plate silver-plate silver plate , silver-plate silver-plated silver plover Silver Plume silver point silver-point , silverpoint silver-pointed silver polish silver pomfret silver poplar (Populus alba )silver-powder silver print silver-printing silver protein silver proteinate silver protein stain silver quandong ,silver quandong tree (Elaeocarpus kirtonii )silver rain silver ratio silver retention silver ring silver rule silver sagebrush (Artemisia cana )silver sage (Salvia argentea )silver salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch )silver salvia (Salvia argentea )silver sand silver-scaled silver screen silver screen silver selenite silver service silver-shafted silver-sheet silver sheet Silver Shirts silver-side , silverside ,silver-sides , silversides (Atheriniformes )silver skin , silver-skin silver-skin , silverskin silver-smith silversmith silversmithing silver solder silver solder silver sole silver spoon silver-spoonism silver-spoon socialist silver-spot , silverspot silver-sprig silver spring silver spruce (Picea engelmannii )silver standard silver star Silver Star , Silver Star medal silver star medal silver state Silver State silver state silver steel silver-stick silver storm silver streak silver string silver sulfide , silver sulphide silver surfer silversword (Argyroxiphium )silver table silvertail , silver-tail silver-tailed silver tea (Leptospermum sericeum )silver telluride silver thatch silver thaw silver thaw silver thistle silver thread silver-tip silver-tip , silvertip silver tongue silver-tongued silver top silver tree fern (Cyathea dealbata )silver tree (Leucadendron argenteum )silver trevally silver trout (†Salvelinus agassizii )silver trumpet silver trumpeter silver tsunami silver vine (Actinidia polygama , Scindapsus pictus )silver vixen silver-voiced silverware silver-washed fritillary silver wattle (Acacia sclerosperma , Acacia dealbata , Acacia lasiocalyx , Acacia retinodes )silver wedding silver wedding silverweed silver weight silver whiskers silver white silver-white silver-white cobalt silver whiting silver willow silver willow (Salix geyeriana )silver wire , silver-wire silverwood silverwork silver-worker silver wormwood (Artemisia cana )silver wreck silvery silver Y silver y , silver y moth sterling silver telluric silver telluride of gold and silver telluride of silver thirty pieces of silver
References
Further reading
David Barthelmy (1997–2024 ) “Silver ”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database .
“silver ”, in Mindat.org , Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024 .
Anagrams
Hunsrik
Etymology
From Middle High German silber , from Old High German silbar , from Proto-West Germanic *silubr .
Pronunciation
Adjective
silver
silvern
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Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch silver , from Proto-West Germanic *silubr .
Pronunciation
Noun
silver n
silver
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Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English seolfor , seolofor ( “ silver ” ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈsilvər/ , /ˈsɛlvər/
Noun
silver (plural silvers )
silver ( metal )
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Old Swedish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse silfr , from Proto-Germanic *silubrą .
Noun
silver n
silver
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Declension of silver (strong a -stem)
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Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish silver , from Old Norse silfr , from Proto-Germanic *silubrą .
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Noun
silver n (uncountable )
silver
silver, coins of silver
silver, cutlery of silver
a silver medal , for 2nd place in a competition
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