silver

Definitions

1. An English surname originating as an occupation for a silversmith or a rich man, or for someone having silvery gray hair or living by a silvery brook.
2. A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag.
   uncountable
3. argent
4. A surname from German.
5. Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.
   collective, countable, uncountable
6. A unisex given name from English from the metal, or transferred from the surname.
7. Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.
   collective, countable, uncountable
8. money, dough
9. Any items made from silver or any other white metal.
   collective, countable, uncountable
10. A shiny gray color.
    uncountable
11. a silver medal
    countable
12. Anything resembling silver; something shiny and white.
    countable, uncountable

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Examples

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

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

“And next morning they found him dead, with his neck broken, in the bottom of the stone pit, with his beautiful clothes a little bloody, and foul and stained with the duckweed from the pond. But his face⟳ was a face⟳ of such happiness that, had you seen it, you would have⟳ understood indeed how that he had died happy, never knowing that cool and streaming silver for the duckweed in the pond.”

“" - - - I'll level with you, Mr. Cummings." "Silver", he corrected. "Sounds like⟳ the Lone Ranger's horse," she said.”

“"Silver here, my darling wife, insists on the services of a particular yacht upholsterer. - - - " From the way he said the woman's metal name⟳ Quayle thought it was changed from a stodgier "Alice" or "Bernice".”

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