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- proper noun An English
surname for asilversmith or a rich man, or for someone having silvery gray hair or living by a silvery brook. - proper noun A
surname anglicised from the German Jewish ornamental surnameSilber . - proper noun A male
given name from the metal, or transferred from the surname. - proper noun A female
given name from the metal.
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Examples
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Silver Question in 1893_; Walter Bagehot, _Depreciation of Silver_ (1877);
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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Horace Silver / We've Got Silver@ Six / Hard Bop Grandpop / Impulse
RVABlogs 2008
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Sangria Silver is a conveyor of all sorts of cargo that may or may not be legal.
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Under a new proposal that I'm making to Congress: Seniors who join AmeriCorps should be able to earn what we call a Silver Scholarship.
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Only a short hour before they had run across the sufferer, whose head seemed so full of the things he had seen at what he called the Silver
Frank Merriwell Down South Burt L. Standish 1905
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John E. Olsson, who was the founder and proprietor of Olsson's Books and Records, the venerable Washington-area institution that once dominated the local bookselling market, died Oct. 28 at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring of a heart attack.
John Olsson dies: Founder of Washington's legendary books and records store was 78 Emma Brown 2010
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I'm already looking for jobs barbacking in Silver Spring, but since I'm too poor for a car ...
Election 2010: Results and analysis with The Post's Robert G. Kaiser Robert G. Kaiser 2010
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Democrats hold almost exactly as many House seats in 2010 as they did in 2004, and if Nate Silver is right and they lose 53 of them, they will, given the economy, have outperformed Clinton's Democrats quite substantially.
What the GDP numbers tell us about the election Ezra Klein 2010
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Silver Surfer returns in Silver Surfer: In Thy Name #1 and Marvel has sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of the issue that arrives November 7th.
Marvel Sneak Peek: Silver Surfer: In Thy Name #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Pyramid Atlantic, the specialty arts center in Silver Spring, is back with its biennial Book Arts Fair Saturday and Sunday.
Pyramid Atlantic set to open the Book Arts Fair Jacqueline Trescott 2010
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