silvern Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite resembling or reminiscent of silver
    silvery.
    • a soft silvern voice
    • singing in her silvery tones
  2. adjective satellite having the white lustrous sheen of silver
    silver; silvery.
    • a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap
    • repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen

WordNet


Sil"vern adjective
Etymology
AS. seolfern, sylfren.
Definitions
  1. Made of silver. Archaic. Wyclif (Acts xix. 24).
    Speech is silvern; silence is golden. Old Proverb.

Webster 1913