Noun: silver
| Singular | silver |
| Plural | silvers |
Sample Sentences
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[…] 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:]
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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:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like silver
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. substratebor.?
3. Proto-Germanic *silubrą
4. Proto-West Germanic *silubr
5. Old English seolfor
6. Middle English silver
7. English silver
8. Inherited from Middle English silver, selver, sulver, from Old English seolfor, from Proto-West Germanic *silubr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą (“silver”), of uncertain origin.
9. cognates and etymology discussion
10. 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.
11. Adjective sense 4 (“denoting a twenty-fifth anniversary”) generalized from silver wedding, itself a calque of German Silberhochzeit. See: Middle English Nouns '
silver,selver,sulver', Middle English Nouns '
silver,selver,sulver', Old English Nouns '
seolfor', Dutch Nouns '
zilver', German Nouns '
Silber', Swedish Nouns '
silver', Icelandic Nouns '
silfur', German Nouns '
Silberhochzeit'.
Verbs referencing "silver"
German Nouns
Silber, Ancient Greek Nouns
σίδηρος, Latvian Nouns
sudrabs, Zulu Nouns
isiliva.