silvan

American  

[sil-vuhn] / ˈsɪl vən /

adjective

1. sylvan.

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silvan British  

/ ˈsɪlvən /

adjective

1. a variant spelling of sylvan

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Other Word Forms

• silvanity noun

Example Sentences

The existence of a satyr, in the silvan form, is even pretended to be proved by the evidence of Saint Anthony, to whom one is said to have appeared in the desert.

From Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Scott, Walter, Sir

In me thy spouse and servant see, To silvan hall I’ll usher thee; Thy bed shall be the leaves heaped high, Thy organ’s note the cuckoo’s cry.

From The Brother Avenged and Other Ballads by Borrow, George Henry

We take the silvan tribes beset With snare and trap and gin and net, And many a heedless deer we smite From thickest shade, concealed from sight.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Let this fair hill Ayodhyá seem, Its silvan things her people deem, And let these waters as they flow Our own beloved Sarjú show.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Then she began to gather sticks, and little branches, and strips of birch bark, and other silvan combustibles, which she found scattered about the ground, and put them upon the coals to make the fire.

From Mary Erskine by Abbott, Jacob