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Word entry · 7 letters

silvery

Best crossword clue

"Shining like silver"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈsɪlvəɹi/Part of speech adjectiveSorted eilrsvyStarts with SEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. having the white lustrous sheen of silver

Word origin

From Middle English silvery, sylvyry; equivalent to silver + -y.

Used in a sentence

  • OF all th' enamell'd race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.
  • Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
  • A silvery cloud drifted over the mountains that surrounded him, its edges glowing with ruddy light cast from the harvest moon cradled between two peaks.

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