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Definition of Silver spoon
1. Noun. The inherited wealth of established upper-class families. "She is the daughter of old money from Massachusetts"
Definition of Silver spoon
1. Noun. (idiomatic) Wealth passed down or inherited. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silver Spoon
Literary usage of Silver spoon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Docs any purchaser of a spoon sold as a plated article for fifty cents, suppose
that he is buying a silver spoon worth $4? Does a purchaser, when buying я ..."
2. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1839)
"NO silver spoon! BY THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY, ESQ. " Take a poon, pig. ... There, if
ever a boy was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, that 's the very boy. ..."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters (1893)
"To William Mason alt Waltham, my eldest son, twenty pounds and one double bell
salt of Silver, six new silver spoon*, cue of my silver vessells called a ..."
4. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1868)
"... my sleeve in the table-cloth, whereby a silver spoon fell into my lap ; and,
as I replaced the spoon, I saw that Detective had witnessed the operation. ..."
5. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, George Cruikshank (1839)
"NO silver spoon! BY THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY, ESQ. " Take a poon, pig-"—Miss ...
There, if ever a boy was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, that's the very ..."
6. A Guide to the Early Christian and Byzantine Antiquities in the Department by Ormonde Maddock Dalton (1903)
"Monogram and inscription on Byzantine silver spoon of the sixth century. (No.
390.) a tripod lamp-stand (No. 376), beneath the foot of which are two ..."
7. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"said Andy, after a long pause, "the devil be from me if ever I seen a silver
spoon split that way before !" The butler gave a hoarse laugh, ..."
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