Silver

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪlvɚ/

Silver

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.
   • 1993, Ed McBain, Mischief, William Morrow and Co., →ISBN, page 67:

     " - - - I'll level with you, Mr. Cummings."
     "Silver", he corrected.
     "Sounds like the Lone Ranger's horse," she said.

   • 1993, Annie Proulx, Shipping News, Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 121:

     "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".

• Elvirs, levirs, livers, livres, rivels, sliver, svirel

Contraction of Latin Silvester, cognate with English Sylvester.

Silver

1. a male given name

• IPA^(key): /ˈsilvɐ/

Silver n

1. silver

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary