"silvery" meaning in English

See silvery in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈsɪlvəɹi/, /ˈsɪlvɹi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-silvery.wav Forms: silverier [comparative], silveriest [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English silvery, sylvyry; equivalent to silver + -y. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|silvery}} Middle English silvery, {{suffix|en|silver|y}} silver + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} silvery (comparative silverier, superlative silveriest)
  1. Resembling silver in color, shiny white. Categories (topical): Silver Translations (resembling silver): لُجَيْن (lujayn) (Arabic), zilarkara (Basque), сребрист (srebrist) (Bulgarian), argentat (Catalan), stříbrný (Czech), stříbřitý (Czech), arĝenta [singular] (Esperanto), argenté (French), ვერცხლისებრი (vercxlisebri) (Georgian), ვერცხლისებრივი (vercxlisebrivi) (Georgian), ვერცხლისებური (vercxliseburi) (Georgian), silbrig (German), silberig (German), ezüstös (Hungarian), airgeadúil (Irish), argenteo (Italian), argentato (Italian), argenteus (Latin), selwrich (Plautdietsch), srebrzysty (Polish), prateado (Portuguese), rupalo (Romani), argintiu (Romanian), серебри́стый (serebrístyj) (Russian), plateado (Spanish), argénteo (Spanish), argentino (Spanish), silvrig (Swedish), ariannaidd (Welsh), זילבערדיק (zilberdik) (Yiddish), זילבערן (zilbern) (Yiddish)
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  2. Sprinkled or covered with silver.
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  3. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound. Translations (clear and musical in tone): ясен (jasen) (Bulgarian), звънлив (zvǎnliv) (Bulgarian), argentí (Catalan), arĝentsona [singular] (Esperanto), argentin (French), silberhell (German), silbrig (German), silbern (German), argentino (Italian), srebrzysty (Polish), argentino (Portuguese), argénteo (Spanish), argentino (Spanish), argentado (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-silvery-en-adj-e8rfPUc9 Disambiguation of 'clear and musical in tone': 19 3 78
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: silvern [archaic]
Derived forms: silvery acacia, silvery-cheeked antshrike, silvery flying fox (taxonomic: Pteropus melanopogon), silvery gade, silvery gibbon (taxonomic: Hylobates moloch), silvery gull, silvery-haired, silvery hair-grass (taxonomic: Aira caryophyllea), silvery hair-tail, silvery honeysuckle (taxonomic: Grevillea striata), silvery marmoset, silvery oak (taxonomic: Grevillea robusta), silvery pomfret, silvery pout (taxonomic: Gadiculus argenteus), silvery salmon, silvery sedge, silvery shrew mole, silvery-tongued, silvery-white

Inflected forms

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          "word": "argentino"
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          "sense": "clear and musical in tone",
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      "ipa": "/ˈsɪlvɹi/"
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}
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    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
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    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
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    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Welsh translations",
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    {
      "word": "silvery acacia"
    },
    {
      "word": "silvery-cheeked antshrike"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Pteropus melanopogon",
      "word": "silvery flying fox"
    },
    {
      "word": "silvery gade"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Hylobates moloch",
      "word": "silvery gibbon"
    },
    {
      "word": "silvery gull"
    },
    {
      "word": "silvery-haired"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Aira caryophyllea",
      "word": "silvery hair-grass"
    },
    {
      "word": "silvery hair-tail"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Grevillea striata",
      "word": "silvery honeysuckle"
    },
    {
      "word": "silvery marmoset"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Grevillea robusta",
      "word": "silvery oak"
    },
    {
      "word": "silvery pomfret"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Gadiculus argenteus",
      "word": "silvery pout"
    },
    {
      "word": "silvery salmon"
    },
    {
      "word": "silvery sedge"
    },
    {
      "word": "silvery shrew mole"
    },
    {
      "word": "silvery-tongued"
    },
    {
      "word": "silvery-white"
    }
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      "form": "silverier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "silveriest",
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          "ref": "1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:",
          "text": "OF all th' enamell'd race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 98:",
          "text": "Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:",
          "text": "Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.",
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        }
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        "Resembling silver in color, shiny white."
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          "silver",
          "silver"
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    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Sprinkled or covered with silver."
      ]
    },
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "a silvery laugh",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The hand grasped the curtain, and drew it aside, and as it did so I heard a voice, I think the softest and yet most silvery voice I ever heard.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound."
      ],
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          "musical"
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      "ipa": "/ˈsɪlvəɹi/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɪlvɹi/"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "silvern"
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "lujayn",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "لُجَيْن"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "zilarkara"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "srebrist",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "сребрист"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "argentat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "stříbrný"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "stříbřitý"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "arĝenta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "argenté"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "vercxlisebri",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "ვერცხლისებრი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "vercxlisebrivi",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "ვერცხლისებრივი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "vercxliseburi",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "ვერცხლისებური"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "silbrig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "silberig"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "ezüstös"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "airgeadúil"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "argenteo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "argentato"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "argenteus"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "selwrich"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "srebrzysty"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "prateado"
    },
    {
      "code": "rom",
      "lang": "Romani",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "rupalo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "argintiu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "serebrístyj",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "серебри́стый"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "plateado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "argénteo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "argentino"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "silvrig"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "ariannaidd"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "zilberdik",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "זילבערדיק"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "zilbern",
      "sense": "resembling silver",
      "word": "זילבערן"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "jasen",
      "sense": "clear and musical in tone",
      "word": "ясен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zvǎnliv",
      "sense": "clear and musical in tone",
      "word": "звънлив"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "clear and musical in tone",
      "word": "argentí"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "clear and musical in tone",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "arĝentsona"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "clear and musical in tone",
      "word": "argentin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "clear and musical in tone",
      "word": "silberhell"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "clear and musical in tone",
      "word": "silbrig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "clear and musical in tone",
      "word": "silbern"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "clear and musical in tone",
      "word": "argentino"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "clear and musical in tone",
      "word": "srebrzysty"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "clear and musical in tone",
      "word": "argentino"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "clear and musical in tone",
      "word": "argénteo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "clear and musical in tone",
      "word": "argentino"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "clear and musical in tone",
      "word": "argentado"
    }
  ],
  "word": "silvery"
}

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