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Definition: Silver Spoon |
Silver SpoonNoun1. Inherited wealth; "he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Silver Spoon Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth. Born to luck and wealth. The allusion is to silver spoons given as prizes and at christenings. The lucky man is born with it in his mouth, and needs not stop to earn it. "One can see, young fellow, that you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth."- Longman's Magazine, 1886. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Prosperity | Adjective: prosperous; thriving; Verb: in a fair way, buoyant; well off, well to do, well to do in the world; set up, at one's ease; rich; in good case; in full, in high feather; fortunate, lucky, in luck; born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born under a lucky star; on the sunny side of the hedge. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Silver Spoon |
| English words defined with "silver spoon": Apostle spoon. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I always gagged on the silver spoon. (Citizen Kane; writing credit: Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles) | |
Lyrics | I licked the silver spoon (What It's Like; performing artist: Everlast) And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon ("The Cat's in the Cradle"; performing artist: Harry Chapin) | |
Clever | You may be born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but you need gold-hearted people to make your life more tasty. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Silver Spoon (1934) | |
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Miguel de Cervantes | Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. |
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Expressions using "silver spoon": be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth ♦ be born with a silver spoon in the mouth ♦ born with a silver spoon in one's mouth ♦ he's born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "silver spoon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Portuguese | nascer em berço de ouro (born with a silver spoon in one's mouth). (various references) | |
Romanian | lingurã de argint. (various references) | |
Russian | серебряная ложка. (various references) | |
Swedish | vara född med silversked i munnen (be born with a silver spoon in the mouth). (various references) | |
Turkish | gümüş kaşık. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-o-o-p-r-s-s-v" | |
-2 letters: overslips, overspins, poisoners, provisoes, slipovers. | |
-3 letters: epsilons, erosions, overslip, overspin, pilsners, plosions, plosives, poisoner, poorness, prolines, provisos, ropiness, rosinols, slipover, snoopers, snoopier, spoilers, spoonier, spoonies, versions, violones. | |
-4 letters: epsilon, erosion, insoles, lesions, lioness, lispers, loonier, loonies, loopers, loopier, loosens, lorises, nerolis, noosers, operons, orioles, orisons, orpines, pensils, persons, pilsner, pinoles, plessor, plosion, plosive. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-o-o-p-r-s-s-v" | |
+4 letters: superovulations. | |
+5 letters: overspeculations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 69 6C 76 65 72 53 70 6F 6F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101001 01101100 01110110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01010011 01110000 01101111 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i l v e r   S p o o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 006C 0076 0065 0072 0053 0070 006F 006F 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53757888718425382818180 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | português, portughez, португальский, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumänsk |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | русский, ryss, Rusça |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | шведский, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turcesc, turc, турецкий, turkisk, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | inglês, englezesc, английский, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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