Definitions for Silver

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Silver sil·ver

Spelling: [sil-ver]

IPA: /ˈsɪl vər/

Silver is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in Silver (eilrsv).

Definitions for Silver

noun

1. Chemistry. a white, ductile metallic element, used for making mirrors, coins, ornaments, table utensils, photographic chemicals, conductors, etc. Symbol: Ag; atomic weight: 107.870; atomic number: 47; specific gravity: 10.5 at 20°C.
2. coin made of this metal; specie; money:
3. this metal as a commodity or considered as a currency standard.
4. table articles made of or plated with silver, including flatware and hollowware.
5. any flatware:
6. something resembling this metal in color, luster, etc.
7. a lustrous grayish white or whitish gray, or the color of the metal:
8. any of the silver halides used for photographic purposes, as silver bromide, silver chloride, or silver iodide.
9. silver medal.
10. Abba Hillel [ab-uh] /ˈæb ə/ (Show IPA), 1893–1963, U.S. rabbi, born in Lithuania.

adjective

1. consisting of, made of, or plated with silver.
2. of or relating to silver.
3. producing or yielding silver.
4. resembling silver; silvery:
5. clear and soft:
6. eloquent; persuasive:
7. urging the use of silver as a currency standard:
8. indicating the twenty-fifth event of a series, as a wedding anniversary.
9. having the color silver:

verb (used with object)

1. to coat with silver or some silverlike substance.
2. to give a silvery color to.

verb (used without object)

1. to become a silvery color.

Origin of Silver

before 900; (noun and adj.) Middle English silver(e), selver(e), selfer, Old English siolfor (orig. noun); cognate with German Silber, Old Norse silfr, Gothic silubr, akin to Serbo-Croatian s

Examples for Silver

To save her cap she had taken it off, and early streaks of silver showed in her hair.

The walls were done in white with a faint blue and silver stripe.

"He shall have four silver candlesticks," said the seneschal moodily.

These are dark times for network TV, but experiments like Galavant are the silver lining.

Brinsley stepped up to the passenger side of the patrol car, raised a silver Taurus semi-automatic pistol and began firing.

No congratulations for those who were born with a silver spoon in their mouths and then blame the poor for being poor.

Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.

The walls are hung with blue Florentine silk, embossed in silver.

Her name was Courtney, and she was a fashion editor for magazines like Photoplay, Screenland, silver Screen.

The writer further says the metal was made from silver coins.