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Meaning of silver | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
ˈsɪl.və

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

Equivalents

العربية الفضة فضي لجين
Беларуская сярэбраны
བོད་སྐད སྒོར་མོ
Cymraeg arian ariannaidd
Dansk sølv
Eesti hõbedane
فارسی سیم سیمین نقره نقرهای
עברית כסף
हिन्दी चांदी
日本語 銀器 銀色 銀色の 銀貨
ខ្មែរ ប្រាក់
한국어 은빛의 은색 은화
Kurdî pêrak
Latina argenteus
Македонски сребрен
Bahasa Melayu perak
Polski srebrny
Slovenčina strieborný
Slovenščina srebrn srebrnina
Српски beštek plata сребро
தமிழ் வெள்ளி
తెలుగు వెండి
Українська сріблястий срібний

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".”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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