Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Hollowware and flatware made of or plated with silver.
- n. Metal eating and serving utensils.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Collectively, manufactures of silver; especially, articles for the table or other domestic use made of silver.
Wiktionary
- n. Anything made from silver.
- n. Anything with a silvery colour.
- n. US knives, forks and spoons
- n. sports trophies, success in a competition.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Dishes, vases, ornaments, and utensils of various sorts, made of silver.
WordNet 3.0
- n. tableware made of silver or silver plate or pewter or stainless steel
Etymologies
- silver + -ware (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He should also make sure never to end a sentence with a preposition, and always use silverware from the inside out.”
“• 'People might say it is a Mickey Mouse cup but it's a trophy'• Winger has yet to win silverware in his professional career”
The Guardian: Theo Walcott is desperate for Arsenal to go on and win the Carling Cup
“If you're interested in silverware, you should go check it out.”
“Jean-Marc was now attaching a fork (as in silverware, and never mind how many points we had to save at Esso for it, or just how many tanks of gas that fork represents) to one end.”
“Then for that special touch there's designer upholstery and custom-made leather seats from BMW that convert into flat beds, gold-plated bathroom fittings, handmade linen and bedware from Noel in Paris, silverware from the French house Christofle, crockery, barware and crystal icetongs comes from the trendy”
“The Reds may have lost out to Chelsea in the race for title silverware last season, but Sir Alex's men got their hands on the first trophy of the new campaign with a 3-1 victory over the Blues at Wembley.”
“ The details of her argument, I admit, had numbed me right from the moment she'd first revealed them many, many sessions before, but one of her more passionate protests had to do with an arcane concept she called silverware nesting.”
“If Arsenal doesn't win the English title, it will be six years without silverware, which is a serious drought for any top European side.”
“My cereal is stored in the drawer below the bowls, which are below the silverware, which is below the three tier stand I keep on the counter, which is next to the refrigerated drawer I keep the milk in.”
“One bag was labelled silverware; another, jewels; another, cash; and another, souvenirs.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘silverware’.
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Silver
Silvery words. (Mithril doesn't count.)
lessilver, silver, ladysilver, loadsilver, silvery, silversmith, silverwork, silverware, ale-silver, quicksilver, aver-silver, besilver and 242 more...
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-Ware Ever
Shareware and its friends.
shareware, cardware, postcardware, beerware, emailware, freeware, otherware, requestware, abandonware, careware, catware, donateware and 136 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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TECH - metals and alloys
toughness, furnace, vibration, bronze, modulus, tubing, flow, zinc, melting, porta, embrittle, wetting and 262 more...
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Beautiful Compound Words
aftermath, afterthought, butterfly, campfire, colorblind, backhand, crossword, cupcake, dollhouse, drawbridge, dreadlock, dreamscape and 73 more...
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chromatic phrases
blue movie, brown study, purple prose, rosy scenario, golden mean, eminence grise, white nights, bronze age, silver bullet, orange juice, black death, technicolor yawn and 188 more...
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utensil strength
sieve, colander, whisk, chinoise, spatula, fork, spork, runcible spoon, tong, mandoline, crockery, ladle and 28 more...
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Mass Nouns
From wikipedia: "In English, mass nouns are characterized by the fact that they cannot be directly modified by a numeral without specifying a unit of measurement, and that they cannot combine with ...
advice, blood, cattle, equipment, furniture, grass, information, knowledge, mathematics, meat, money, music and 31 more...
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TT3 Lesson 30
outdoors, camp stove, stove, ice chest, appliance, case, soft drink, knife, fork, silverware, tool, tool kit and 59 more...
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