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# silken

«silken» in Mova's school dictionary: **Made of silk** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (silken)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Made of silk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silken/#m1)

2) Soft, smooth and shiny like silk: «silken hair», «a silken voice». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silken/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A literary, poetic word in stories and fairy tales: a princess's silken dress, the Rat's silken fur, the river's silken surface. In everyday speech people more often say «silk» or «silky».

### examples

- The princess wore a silken gown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silken/#x1)
- Her hair was long and silken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silken/#x2)
- The river slid by with a silken sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silken/#x3)
- The cat's fur felt silken under my hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silken/#x4)
- He spoke in a soft, silken voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silken/#x5)
- A silken thread hung from the spider's web. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silken/#x6)
- The king sat on silken cushions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silken/#x7)
- How her silken robe is rustling! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silken/#x8)

### note

Old-fashioned, literary form; «silky» is the everyday word. Do not add -er/-est; say «more silken».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «silken» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silken/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.