silver

1. 1.

   made from or largely consisting of silver

   “silver bracelets”

   Similarmetallic
2. 2.

   having the white lustrous sheen of silver

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

   “repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen”

   Synonymssilvernsilvery

   Similarbright
3. 3.

   of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver

   “silvery hair”

   Synonymsargentsilverysilverish

   Similarachromatic
4. 4.

   expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively

   “able to dazzle with his facile tongue”

   “silver speech”

   Synonymseloquentfacilefluentsilver-tonguedsmooth-spoken

   Similararticulate

1. 1.

   coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam

   “silver the necklace”

   Broaderplate
2. 2.

   make silver in color

   “Her worries had silvered her hair”

   Broadercolor
3. 3.

   turn silver

   “The man's hair silvered very attractively”

   Broaderdiscolor

Other forms of silver

plural

silvers·

past tense

silverred·

present participle

silverring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about silver

What does silver mean?

silver means "a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography". That is the primary sense; the word has 12 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in silver?

silver has 2 syllables: sil-ver. The stress falls on "sil". In IPA it is /ˈsɪlvɚ/.

What is another word for silver?

Close synonyms include Ag, atomic number 47, ash grey, ash gray, silver grey. 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 silver a common word?

silver is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with silver?

1 word rhymes with silver. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.