silver

noun silvers

1. uncountable A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag.

   Similar: ☽, ☾, argyr-

2. collective, countable, uncountable 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.

   Similar: argyr-

3. collective, countable, uncountable Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.

   Similar: silverware

4. collective, countable, uncountable Any items made from silver or any other white metal.
5. uncountable A shiny gray color. I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana.
6. countable A silver medal.
7. countable, uncountable Anything resembling silver; something shiny and white. 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

Similar: E174

adjective more silver · most silver

1. Made from silver. 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 f

   Similar: silvern

2. Made from another white metal.
3. Having a color like silver: a shiny gray.

   Similar: silvery

4. 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.
5. of commercial services Premium, but inferior to gold.
6. Pertaining or relating to elderly persons.
7. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound. a silver-voiced young girl

verb silvers · silvering · silvered

1. 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, [...]
2. 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
3. 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.
4. 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; [...]

proper noun

1. 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.
2. A surname from German.
3. A unisex given name from English from the metal, or transferred from the surname. " - - - I'll level with you, Mr. Cummings." "Silver", he corrected. "Sounds like the Lone Ranger's horse," she said.
4. A community in the Rural Municipality of Armstrong, Manitoba, Canada, named after N. T. Silver.
5. A township in Cherokee County, Iowa, United States.
6. A township in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States, named after Silver Creek.
7. An unincorporated community in Coke County, Texas, United States.