"silver-haired" meaning in All languages combined

See silver-haired on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Etymology: From silver + haired. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|silver|haired}} silver + haired Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} silver-haired (not comparable)
  1. Having greyish-white hair. Tags: not-comparable Translations (having greyish-white hair): среброко́с (srebrokós) (Bulgarian), hopeahiuksinen (Finnish), 銀髪の (ginpatsu no) (alt: ぎんぱつの) (Japanese), 은발(銀髮)의 (eunbar-ui) (Korean), сре́брокос (srébrokos) (Macedonian), srebrnowłosy (Polish), silverhårig (Swahili)

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "silver",
        "3": "haired"
      },
      "expansion": "silver + haired",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From silver + haired.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "silver-haired (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Korean translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swahili translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Hair colors",
          "orig": "en:Hair colors",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having greyish-white hair."
      ],
      "id": "en-silver-haired-en-adj-8UjURovN",
      "links": [
        [
          "greyish",
          "greyish"
        ],
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ],
        [
          "hair",
          "hair"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "alternative"
          ],
          "word": "silvery-haired"
        },
        {
          "word": "bluehair"
        },
        {
          "word": "gray-haired"
        },
        {
          "word": "grey-haired"
        },
        {
          "word": "grizzled"
        },
        {
          "word": "grizzly"
        },
        {
          "word": "silver fox"
        },
        {
          "word": "silver vixen"
        },
        {
          "word": "golden girl"
        },
        {
          "word": "platinum blond"
        },
        {
          "word": "platinum blonde"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hoary"
        },
        {
          "word": "white-haired"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "word": "elder"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "word": "elderly"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "in this metonymic sense"
          ],
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "informal"
          ],
          "word": "geriatric"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "in this metonymic sense"
          ],
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "informal"
          ],
          "word": "gerontologic"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "in this metonymic sense"
          ],
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "informal"
          ],
          "word": "gerontological"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "idiomatic"
          ],
          "word": "long in the tooth"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "word": "matured"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "euphemistic"
          ],
          "word": "of a certain age"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "word": "old as Methuselah"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "euphemistic",
            "idiomatic",
            "mildly"
          ],
          "word": "on in years"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "idiomatic"
          ],
          "word": "over the hill"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "word": "senior"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "word": "superannuated"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "UK"
          ],
          "word": "ivy-covered"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "preserved"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "word": "wintry"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "gray / grey"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "gray-headed / grey-headed"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "grey-haired / gray-haired"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "grisly"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "grizzled"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "grizzly"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "hoary"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "tags": [
            "derogatory",
            "obsolete",
            "slang"
          ],
          "word": "mouldy"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "silver-haired"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "silvery-haired"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "white-haired"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "lang_code": "bg",
          "roman": "srebrokós",
          "sense": "having greyish-white hair",
          "word": "среброко́с"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "sense": "having greyish-white hair",
          "word": "hopeahiuksinen"
        },
        {
          "alt": "ぎんぱつの",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "lang_code": "ja",
          "roman": "ginpatsu no",
          "sense": "having greyish-white hair",
          "word": "銀髪の"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "lang_code": "ko",
          "roman": "eunbar-ui",
          "sense": "having greyish-white hair",
          "word": "은발(銀髮)의"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "lang_code": "mk",
          "roman": "srébrokos",
          "sense": "having greyish-white hair",
          "word": "сре́брокос"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "lang_code": "pl",
          "sense": "having greyish-white hair",
          "word": "srebrnowłosy"
        },
        {
          "code": "sw",
          "lang": "Swahili",
          "lang_code": "sw",
          "sense": "having greyish-white hair",
          "word": "silverhårig"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "silver-haired"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "silver",
        "3": "haired"
      },
      "expansion": "silver + haired",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From silver + haired.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "silver-haired (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bluehair"
    },
    {
      "word": "gray-haired"
    },
    {
      "word": "grey-haired"
    },
    {
      "word": "grizzled"
    },
    {
      "word": "grizzly"
    },
    {
      "word": "silver fox"
    },
    {
      "word": "silver vixen"
    },
    {
      "word": "golden girl"
    },
    {
      "word": "platinum blond"
    },
    {
      "word": "platinum blonde"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English parasynthetic adjectives",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Swahili translations",
        "en:Hair colors"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having greyish-white hair."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "greyish",
          "greyish"
        ],
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ],
        [
          "hair",
          "hair"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "alternative"
          ],
          "word": "silvery-haired"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hoary"
        },
        {
          "word": "white-haired"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "word": "elder"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "word": "elderly"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "in this metonymic sense"
          ],
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "informal"
          ],
          "word": "geriatric"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "in this metonymic sense"
          ],
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "informal"
          ],
          "word": "gerontologic"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "in this metonymic sense"
          ],
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "informal"
          ],
          "word": "gerontological"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "idiomatic"
          ],
          "word": "long in the tooth"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "word": "matured"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "euphemistic"
          ],
          "word": "of a certain age"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "word": "old as Methuselah"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "euphemistic",
            "idiomatic",
            "mildly"
          ],
          "word": "on in years"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "idiomatic"
          ],
          "word": "over the hill"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "word": "senior"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "word": "superannuated"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "UK"
          ],
          "word": "ivy-covered"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "tags": [
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "preserved"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:elderly",
          "word": "wintry"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "gray / grey"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "gray-headed / grey-headed"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "grey-haired / gray-haired"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "grisly"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "grizzled"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "grizzly"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "hoary"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "tags": [
            "derogatory",
            "obsolete",
            "slang"
          ],
          "word": "mouldy"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "silver-haired"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "silvery-haired"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:grey-haired",
          "word": "white-haired"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "srebrokós",
      "sense": "having greyish-white hair",
      "word": "среброко́с"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "having greyish-white hair",
      "word": "hopeahiuksinen"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ぎんぱつの",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "roman": "ginpatsu no",
      "sense": "having greyish-white hair",
      "word": "銀髪の"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "lang_code": "ko",
      "roman": "eunbar-ui",
      "sense": "having greyish-white hair",
      "word": "은발(銀髮)의"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "lang_code": "mk",
      "roman": "srébrokos",
      "sense": "having greyish-white hair",
      "word": "сре́брокос"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "having greyish-white hair",
      "word": "srebrnowłosy"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "lang_code": "sw",
      "sense": "having greyish-white hair",
      "word": "silverhårig"
    }
  ],
  "word": "silver-haired"
}

Download raw JSONL data for silver-haired meaning in All languages combined (4.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.