How do you use the word "silver" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "silver": Speech is silver, but silence is golden. Can you distinguish silver from tin?

Silver Meaning

/ˈsɪl.və/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

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

nounCoins made from silver or any similar white metal.

Sentence Examples

Speech is silver, but silence is golden.

Can you distinguish silver from tin?

Donna was born with a silver spoon in her mouth.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

metal bright silvery

Antonyms:

dull

CEFR Practice Quiz

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

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She wore a beautiful ____ necklace that matched her elegant evening gown.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Germanic *silubrą Proto-West Germanic *silubr Old English seolfor Middle English silver English silver Inherited from Middle English silver, selver, sulver, from Old English seolfor, from Proto-West Germanic *silubr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą (“silver”), of uncertain origin. cognates and etymology discussion 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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"[…] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver." — 1990, David F. Friedman, Don DeNevi, A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-film King, page 136:

"I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana." — 2017, Sam Shepard, chapter 27, in Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 62:

"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." — 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:

"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." — 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

"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." — 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

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