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
How often you will meet it
Rank 987 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 18,529 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.009% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- 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 also: Ag, atomic number 47
- coins made of silver
- a light shade of grey also: ash grey, ash gray, silver grey, silver gray
- silverware eating utensils also: flatware
- a trophy made of silver (or having the appearance of silver) that is usually awarded for winning second place in a competition also: silver medal
adjective
- made from or largely consisting of silver silver bracelets
- having the white lustrous sheen of silver also: silvern, silvery a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leaprepeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen
- of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver also: argent, silvery, silverish silvery hair
silver in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Abou Ben Adhem, the great silver cat in her lap, blinked indifferently.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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She also had $36 in silver, which the plunderer of the body did not get.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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The cloud had turned inside out for Mrs. Wiggs, and only the silver lining was visible.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch · Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice · Chapter 1
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His big laugh and the silver music of her own lighter merriment rang out a little tantalisingly.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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There's scarlet holly on the streets, and silver mistletoe; The surging, jeweled, ragged crowds forever come and go.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1