Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Silver en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈsɪlvɚ/ (General-American)

Etymology

As a surname, anglicised from the German Jewish ornamental surname Silber.

Meanings

  1. An English surname originating as an occupation for a silversmith or a rich man, or for someone having silvery gray hair or living by a silvery brook.
  2. A surname from German.
  3. A unisex given name from English from the metal, or transferred from the surname.
    • "Silver here, my darling wife, insists on the services of a particular yacht upholsterer. - - - " From the way he said the woman's metal name Quayle thought it was changed from a stodgier "Alice" or "Bernice". 1993, Annie Proulx, Shipping News, Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 121:
    • " - - - I'll level with you, Mr. Cummings." "Silver", he corrected. "Sounds like the Lone Ranger's horse," she said. 1993, Ed McBain, Mischief, William Morrow and Co., →ISBN, page 67:
  4. A place name: ▸ A community in the Rural Municipality of Armstrong, Manitoba, Canada, named after N. T. Silver.
  5. A place name: ▸ A township in Cherokee County, Iowa, United States.
  6. A place name: ▸ A township in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States, named after Silver Creek.
  7. A place name: ▸ An unincorporated community in Coke County, Texas, United States.

Deriveds

Silvertown · Silver-Russell dwarfism · Russell-Silver dwarfism