silver

CEFRA2

/ˈsɪl.və/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A shiny gray metal; the color of that metal.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.

Examples

  • Donna was born with a silver spoon in her mouth.

  • Speech is silver, but silence is golden.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
4

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.

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

  3. A shiny gray color.

More examples

In context

  • Can you distinguish silver from tin?

  • Mostly, these have been relationships of 10 or less years. However, one respondent has celebrated her silver wedding anniversary.

  • to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury

Synonyms

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The ancient jewelry was made of blank, a shiny white metal that does not rust.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

Cognate with Scots siller (“silver”), 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 4 (“denoting a twenty-fifth anniversary”) generalized from silver wedding, itself a calque of German Silberhochzeit.