[
UK
/sˈɪlvən/
]
NOUN
- a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods
ADJECTIVE
-
relating to or characteristic of wooded regions
a shady sylvan glade
How To Use silvan In A Sentence
- Silvanus sat back and crossed his fingers as if taking a curative catnap; ‘we go from life to life; place to place.’
- A few trees scattered around gave an agreeable and silvan air to the place; and the chapel, that appeared on a rising ground at some distance from the hamlet, was constructed in a style of pleasing simplicity, which corresponded with the whole scene. Anne of Geierstein
- Silvan reached out his hand, ran his fingers over her head, felt the warmth of her skin, the sofu1ess of the downlike hai4 the hardness of the bone beneath. Dragons of a Fallen Sun
- Israeli Vice-Prime Minister Silvan Shalom told Israeli radio that the trip would focus on two main issues.
- But the destruction of silvan beauty is great when the breadth of the road is more than proportioned to the vale through which it runs, and lowers, of course, the consequence of any objects of wood or water, or broken and varied ground, which might otherwise attract notice and give pleasure. Chronicles of the Canongate
- The chase of the wolf, the wild boar, or even the timid stag, required silvan arms; the wild cattle still more demanded this equipment of war-bows and shafts, boar-spears and sharp swords, and other tools of the chase similar to those used in actual war. Castle Dangerous
- Silvano Arieti and others argued that schizophrenia could be understood as an injury to the inner self inflicted by psychologically invasive, "schizophrenogenic" parents. Psychology Wiki - Recent changes [en]
- Silvan followed him, the ex - citement of the storm replaced by the tense, fierce excitement of the attack. Dragons of a Fallen Sun
- Pensilvany country, to a cousin of his of the same name residing in the neighbourhood of this very town of Bala in Merionethshire, where you and Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
- Selvans assuredly comes from Latin Silvanus which is in turn formed from a Latin word silva "forest" and that would help explain why he does not appear in Greek mythological scenes, right? Archive 2007-11-01