say it: SIL-vur-wer
silverware is a noun meaning "tableware made of silver or silver plate or pewter or stainless steel". It is pronounced /ˈsɪlvɚˌwɛɹ/ — SIL-vur-wer. It carries one recorded sense.
tableware made of silver or silver plate or pewter or stainless steel
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for silverware come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.