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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: tableware made of silver or silver plate or pewter or stainless steel

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1848 1. silver plate 1 2. flatware

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. articles made of or coated with silver.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Silverware Sil"ver*ware`, n. Dishes, vases, ornaments, and utensils of various sorts, made of silver.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. You can use silverware to refer to all the things in a house that are made of silver, especially the cutlery and dishes. There was a serving spoon missing when Nina put the silverware back in its box. = silver N-UNCOUNT 2. Journalists sometimes use silverware to refer to silver cups and other prizes won by sports teams or players. Everton paraded their recently acquired silverware.

Moby Thesaurus

appliances, brassware, chinaware, clayware, copperware, cutlery, dining utensils, dinnerware, durable goods, durables, earthenware, enamelware, fixtures, flat silver, flatware, forks, glassware, graniteware, hard goods, hardware, hollow ware, housefurnishings, housewares, ironmongery, ironware, kitchenware, knives, metalware, ovenware, silver, silver plate, spoons, sporting goods, stainless-steel ware, stoneware, tablespoon, tableware, teaspoon, tinware, tools and machinery, white goods, woodenware