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silvan

silvan is the alternative spelling of sylvan.

Meaning of sylvan

Adjective

sylvan (comparative more sylvan, superlative most sylvan)

  1. Pertaining to the forest, or woodlands.
    • Broke by the jutting Land, on either ſide: / In double Streams the briny Waters glide. / Betwixt two rows of Rocks, a Sylvan Scene / Appears above, and Groves for ever green: […]1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 208, lines...
  2. Residing in a forest or wood.
    • Now, my Sacontalá, you are becomingly decorated: put on this lower veſt, the gift of ſylvan goddeſſes.1790, Cálidás [i.e., Kālidāsa]; [William Jones, transl.], Sacontalá; or, The Fatal Ring: An Indian Drama. By Cálidás. Translated from the Original Sanscrit and Prácrit, London: Printed for Edwards...
    Synonyms:
    forestlike, foresty
  3. Wooded, or covered in forest.
    • Nicolet Area Technical College, a Rhinelander green centerpiece, gets high marks not just for its management of more than two hundred acres of sylvan land and its thousand feet of frontage along the pristine shores of Lake Julia, but for being Wisconsin's college campus leader in renewable energy...2011, Pat[ricia J.] Dillon, Lynne [Smith] Diebel, “Enter, Northwoods: Rhinelander Area”, in Green Travel Guide to Northern Wisconsin: Environmentally and Socially Responsible Travel, Madison, Wis....
    Synonyms:
    grovy

See all 12 meanings of sylvan

Noun

silvan (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) tellurium

Proper noun capitalized: Silvan

Silvan

  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

Forms of silvan

comparativemore silvan
superlativemost silvan

Origin of silvan

See sylvan.

See sylvanium.

Questions about silvan

What does silvan mean?
Silvan means tellurium.
What is silvan the alternative spelling of?
Silvan is the alternative spelling of sylvan.
What part of speech is silvan?
Silvan can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near silvan in the dictionary

  1. siluruses
  2. silva
  3. silvadene
  4. silvae
  5. silvalactam
  6. silvan
  7. silvana
  8. silvanas
  9. silvanid
  10. silvanids
  11. silvaniform

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