Meaning and Origin
What does the name Silver mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
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User Submitted Meanings
- According to 2 people from South Carolina, U.S., the name Silver is of English origin and means "Precious metal".
- According to a user from California, U.S., the name Silver means "Special".
- [Chem] A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the “noble” metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. Symbol Ag ( Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7. Specific gravity 10.5.
- Coin made of silver; silver money.
- Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
- The color of silver.
Note: ☞ Silver was known under the name of luna to the ancients and also to the alchemists. Some of its compounds, as the halogen salts, are remarkable for the effect of light upon them, and are used in photography.
Note: ☞ Silver is used in the formation of many compounds of obvious meaning; as, silver-armed, silver-bright, silver-buskined, silver-coated, silver-footed, silver-haired, silver-headed, silver-mantled, silver-plated, silver-slippered, silver-sounding, silver-studded, silver-tongued, silver-white. See Silver (a.)
Etymology: OE. silver selver seolver, AS. seolfor siolfur siolufr silofr sylofr; akin to OS. silubar, OFries. selover, D. zilver, LG. sulver, OHG. silabar silbar, G. silber, Icel. silfr, Sw. silfver, Dan. sölv, Goth. silubr, Russ. serebro, Lith. sidabras; of unknown origin
- Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.
- Resembling silver.
- Bright; resplendent; white.
" Silverhair." [Shak.]
"Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy breast." [Milton.] - Precious; costly.
- Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear.
" Silvervoices."
Spenser. - Sweet; gentle; peaceful.
" Silverslumber."
Spenser.
- Bright; resplendent; white.
- To cover with silver; to give a silvery appearance to by applying a metal of a silvery color; as, to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury.
- To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver."And smiling calmness silvered o'er the deep." [Pope.]
- To make hoary, or white, like silver."His head was silvered o'er with age." [Gay.]
- Silverware eating utensils
- A trophy made of silver (or having the appearance of silver) that is usually awarded for winning second place in a competition
- A light shade of grey
- Coins made of silver
- A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography
- Turn silver ("The man's hair silvered very attractively")
- Make silver in color ("Her worries had silvered her hair")
- Coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam ("silver the necklace")
- Expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively ("silver speech")
- Having the white lustrous sheen of silver ("a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap" and "repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen")
- Of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver ("silvery hair")
- Made from or largely consisting of silver ("silver bracelets")
- An English surname for a silversmith or a rich man, or for someone having silvery gray hair or living by a silvery brook.
- A surname anglicised from the German Jewish ornamental surname Silber.
- A male given name from English from the metal, or transferred from the surname.
- A female given name from English from the metal.
Silver was also found in the following language(s): Estonian and Hunsrik