silver

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having the white lustrous sheen of silver

   a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap

2. 2
   adj

   of lustrous grey

   covered with or tinged with the color of silver

3. 3
   adj

   made from or largely consisting of silver

   silver bracelets

4. 4
   verb

   turn silver

   The man's hair silvered very attractively

5. 5
   verb

   make silver in color

   Our worries had silvered our hair.

6. 6
   verb

   coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam

   silver the necklace

7. 7
   noun

   Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.

   […] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver.

8. 8
   noun

   A shiny gray color.

   I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana.

Etymology

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…