SILVERSMITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silversmith mean? 

• SILVERSMITH (noun)
  The noun SILVERSMITH has 1 sense:

1. someone who makes or repairs articles of silver

  Familiarity information: SILVERSMITH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILVERSMITH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who makes or repairs articles of silver

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

silver-worker; silversmith; silverworker

Hypernyms ("silversmith" is a kind of...):

jeweler; jeweller; jewelry maker (someone who makes jewelry)

Instance hyponyms:

Paul Revere; Revere (American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818))

 Context examples 

I have seen a silversmith's booth there which would serve to buy either side of this street.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“What!” said Mrs. Weston, “have not you finished it yet? you would not earn a very good livelihood as a working silversmith at this rate.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)