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silvery

English

Etymology

silver +? -y

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?s?lv??i/, /?s?lv?i/

Adjective

silvery (comparative silverier, superlative silveriest)

  1. Resembling silver in color, shiny white.
  2. Sprinkled or covered with silver.
  3. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.

Synonyms

  • silvern (archaic)

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • slivery

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silvern

English

Etymology

From Middle English sylveren, selverne, from Old English seolfren, from Proto-Germanic *silubr?naz (“made of silver”); equivalent to silver +? -(e)n. Cognate with Dutch zilveren (“silvern”), German silbern (“silvern”).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?s?lv?n/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?lv?n/

Adjective

silvern (not comparable)

  1. (literary) Made of silver; or resembling or characteristic of silver; silvery.
    • 1885, Robert Bird, Law Lyrics (page 31)
      I know a pool, where shadows fall / From fir-trees, melancholy tall, / That dream and quiver round the rim, / And in the molten centre swim, / Where taper tops do all unite / Bemirrored in its silvern light.

Translations

Middle English

Adjective

silvern

  1. Alternative form of sylveren

Noun

silvern pl

  1. Alternative form of sylveren

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