say it: SIL-vur-wer
silverware is a noun meaning "tableware made of silver or silver plate or pewter or stainless steel". 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.