german silver

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   a silver-white alloy containing copper and zinc and nickel

   Synonymsnickel silver

   Broaderalloy

Questions about german silver

What does german silver mean?

german silver means "a silver-white alloy containing copper and zinc and nickel".

What is another word for german silver?

Close synonyms include nickel silver. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is german silver a common word?

german silver is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.