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Meaning of SILVERN

Pronunciation:  'silvurn

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  having the white lustrous sheen of silver; "a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap"; "repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen"
  2. [adj]  resembling or reminiscent of silver; "a soft silvern voice"; "singing in her silvery tones"
 
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 Synonyms: bright, euphonious, euphonous, silver, silvery
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Sil"vern\, a. [AS. seolfern, sylfren.]
Made of silver. [Archaic.] --Wyclif (Acts xix. 24).
      Speech is silvern; silence is golden.    --Old Proverb.
 
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