silvan

comparative more silvan · superlative most silvan

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of sylvan.

   Broke by the jutting land, on either side, / In double streams the briny waters glide, / Betwixt two rows of rocks: a silvan scene / Appears above, and groves for ever green: […]

   1806, Virgil, “Æneis, Book I”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil, Translated into English Verse … A New Edition; with Remarks on the “Corrections” of Dr. [John] Carey, new edition, volume II, London: Printed for J. Johnson [et al.], →OCLC, lines 231–234

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   We were now within the boundaries of Minnesota, and this prairie was yet the habitation of Wapasha (Red Leaf) and his Sioux band. I never beheld a more charming silvan picture than this prairie presented; […]

   1853 July, [Benson John Lossing], “Sketches on the Upper Mississippi”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume VII, number XXXVIII, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, 329 & 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square, →OCLC, page 182, column 2

1. obsoleteuncountablechemistrytellurium

1. a city in Diyarbakır Province in Turkey.
2. A town in the Shire of Yarra Ranges, central Victoria, Australia
3. A male given name.

   “There is no joy in me about the resignation of Silvan Shalom. I would prefer that a person such as this would not be a minister in the government in the first place. […]

   2015 December 20, Oren Liebermann, “Silvan Shalom, Israel’s interior minister, quitting amid harassment accusations”, in CNN