Silver

See also: silver

English

Proper noun

Silver

  1. An English surname​ for a silversmith or a rich man, or for someone having silvery gray hair or living by a silvery brook.
  2. A surname​ anglicised from the German Jewish ornamental surname Silber.
  3. A male given name from the metal, or transferred from the surname.
    • 1993 Ed McBain, Mischief, William Morrow and Co., →ISBN, page 67:
      " - - - I'll level with you, Mr. Cummings."
      "Silver", he corrected.
      "Sounds like the Lone Ranger's horse," she said.
  4. A female given name from the metal.
    • 1993 Annie Proulx, Shipping News, Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 121:
      "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".

Anagrams

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Etymology

Contraction of Latin Silvester, cognate with English Sylvester.

Proper noun

Silver

  1. A male given name.

Hunsrik

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsilvɐ/

Noun

Silver n

  1. silver

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