silver

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A shiny, valuable greyish-white metal used for jewellery, coins, and tableware.

   The ring was made of pure silver.

2. 2
   adj

   Made of silver, or having its shiny greyish-white colour.

   She wore a pair of silver bracelets.

3. 3
   noun

   A shiny grey colour like that of the metal.

   He painted the old car a bright silver.

4. 4
   verb

   To turn silver or grey in colour.

   His hair had silvered with age.

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 silaP…

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