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silvan

[sil-vuhn]

adjective

  1. sylvan.



silvan

/ ˈsɪlvən /

adjective

  1. a variant spelling of sylvan

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • silvanity noun
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To this process, within reasonable limits, those who value the silvan greenery of England would be unreasonable to object.

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Those famous favourites of Augustus II's were almost all bold riders, fond of hunting, of rifles and horses, looking like silvan goddesses, not frightened to meet a wild beast.

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I cannot let the tiny angel perish in the silvan gloom.

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Here is tranquillity and silvan shade; For now, emerging from that waste of sand Which was my life, I reach a fruitful glade, A pool of water in a thirsty land.

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Otto paused on the margin, looking about him with delight; then his glance returned to Seraphina, as she stood framed in that silvan pleasantness and looking at her husband with undecipherable eyes.

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