adj
Meaning 1
Resembling silver in color, shiny white.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: argentine
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
silvery
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈsɪlvəɹi/
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adj
Meaning 2
Sprinkled or covered with silver.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a silvery laugh
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
having the white lustrous sheen of silver
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap
- repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: silver, silvern
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
resembling or reminiscent of silver
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a soft silvern voice
- singing in her silvery tones
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: silvern
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- silvery hair
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: argent, silver, silverish
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English silvery, sylvyry; equivalent to silver + -y.
Across languages
Translations
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: لُجَيْن (lujayn) — resembling silver
- Basque: zilarkara — resembling silver
- Bulgarian: сребрист (srebrist) — resembling silver
- Catalan: argentat — resembling silver
- Czech: stříbrný — resembling silver
- Czech: stříbřitý — resembling silver
- Esperanto: arĝenta — resembling silver
- French: argenté — resembling silver
- Georgian: ვერცხლისებრი (vercxlisebri) — resembling silver
- Georgian: ვერცხლისებრივი (vercxlisebrivi) — resembling silver
- Georgian: ვერცხლისებური (vercxliseburi) — resembling silver
- German: silbrig — resembling silver
- German: silberig — resembling silver
- Hungarian: ezüstös — resembling silver
- Irish: airgeadúil — resembling silver
- Italian: argenteo — resembling silver
- Italian: argentato — resembling silver
- Latin: argenteus — resembling silver
- Persian: نقرهای (noqre'i) — resembling silver
- Plautdietsch: selwrich — resembling silver
- Polish: srebrzysty — resembling silver
- Portuguese: prateado — resembling silver
- Romani: rupalo — resembling silver
- Romanian: argintiu — resembling silver
- Russian: серебри́стый (serebrístyj) — resembling silver
- Spanish: plateado — resembling silver
- Spanish: argénteo — resembling silver
- Spanish: argentino — resembling silver
- Swedish: silvrig — resembling silver
- Welsh: ariannaidd — resembling silver
- Yiddish: זילבערדיק (zilberdik) — resembling silver
- Yiddish: זילבערן (zilbern) — resembling silver
- Bulgarian: ясен (jasen) — clear and musical in tone
- Bulgarian: звънлив (zvǎnliv) — clear and musical in tone
- Catalan: argentí — clear and musical in tone
- Esperanto: arĝentsona — clear and musical in tone
- French: argentin — clear and musical in tone
- German: silberhell — clear and musical in tone
- German: silbrig — clear and musical in tone
- German: silbern — clear and musical in tone
- Italian: argentino — clear and musical in tone
- Polish: srebrzysty — clear and musical in tone
- Portuguese: argentino — clear and musical in tone
- Spanish: argénteo — clear and musical in tone
- Spanish: argentino — clear and musical in tone
- Spanish: argentado — clear and musical in tone
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