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silver-plated

silver-plated is the simple past and past participle of silver-plate.

Meaning of silver-plate

Verb

silver-plate (third-person singular simple present silver-plates, present participle silver-plating, simple past and past participle silver-plated)

  1. To coat a metal surface with a thin layer of silver, often electrolytically.

Adjective

silver-plated (not comparable)

  1. Having a thin coating of the metal silver applied to it.
    • The spoon looked like sterling, but actually it was cheap silver-plated steel.

Questions about silver-plated

What does silver-plated mean?
Silver-plated means having a thin coating of the metal silver applied to it.
What is silver-plated the simple past and past participle of?
Silver-plated is the simple past and past participle of silver-plate.
What part of speech is silver-plated?
Silver-plated is an adjective.

Words near silver-plated in the dictionary

  1. silver-leaved nightshade
  2. silver-lined
  3. silver-needle noodle
  4. silver-needle noodles
  5. silver-plate
  6. silver-plated
  7. silver-plates
  8. silver-plating
  9. Silver-Russell dwarfism
  10. Silver-Russell syndrome
  11. silver-sheet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: silver-plated (page history and authors); silver-plate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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