silvern

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈsɪlvɚn/
See all 2 pronunciations
/ˈsɪlvɚn/ · /ˈsɪlvən/

Definition of silvern

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (literary, not-comparable)Made of silver; resembling or characteristic of silver; silvery.
    “But, leaving novelists alone, on the whole we find in real life that if speech is silvern, silence is essentially golden, and that more harm is done by saying too much than by saying too little; above all, that infinite mischief arises by not letting sleeping dogs lie.”
    “I know a pool, where shadows fall From fir-trees, melancholy tall, That dream and quiver round the rim, And in the molten centre swim, Where taper tops do all unite Bemirrored in its silvern light.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English sylveren, selverne, from Old English seolfren, from Proto-Germanic *silubrīnaz (“made of silver”); equivalent to silver + -(e)n. Cognate with Dutch zilveren (“silvern”), German silbern (“silvern”).

Anagrams of silvern

1 play · some not in Scrabble

Find your best play with silvern

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes silvern, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.