silverware

Noun

Meaning

Dishes, vases, ornaments, and utensils of various sorts, made of silver.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sterling china argent fork service money knife medal silver plate cash dish spoon cutter glassware
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Antonyms

debt poverty obligation liability arrears debts
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Hypernyms

tableware

Hyponyms

fork knife silver flatware holloware hollowware

Examples

I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware. Diosdado Macapagal

Until I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading. Gabriel García Márquez

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself. Jonathan Ive

Let me get this straight. The future of our relationship hinged on advice from a fifteen-year-old girl, a probably untrue story from a one-eyed Chihuahua trainer, and me unromantically - yet skillfully - kissing you on top of silverware and china? Richelle Mead

It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner. Wilson Mizner

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware. David Sedaris

Close letter words and terms

Silvertown silvertree silvervine silverweed Silverwood silverwork