serene

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See also: Serene, serené, and Serēnē

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /səˈɹiːn/
  • (US) IPA(key): /səˈɹin/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -iːn

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English, borrowed from Latin serēnus (clear, cloudless, untroubled).

Adjective[edit]

serene (comparative more serene or serener, superlative most serene or serenest)

  1. Calm, peaceful, unruffled.
    She looked at her students with joviality and a serene mentality.
    • 1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 6:
      Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
  2. Without worry or anxiety; unaffected by disturbance.
    • (Can we date this quote by Andy Adams, Reed Anthony, Cowman and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      I took train and reached Wichita, where my active partner was awaiting me. He had just returned from the Medicine River, and reported everything serene.
  3. (archaic) Fair and unclouded (as of the sky); clear; unobscured.
  4. Used as part of certain titles, originally to indicate sovereignty or independence.
    Her Serene Highness
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Verb[edit]

serene (third-person singular simple present serenes, present participle serening, simple past and past participle serened)

  1. (transitive) To make serene.

Noun[edit]

serene (plural serenes)

  1. (poetic) Serenity; clearness; calmness.

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from Middle French serein, from Old French serein (evening), from Vulgar Latin *serānum, from substantive use of sērum, neuter of sērus (late) + -ānus suffix.

Noun[edit]

serene (plural serenes)

  1. A fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset.
Alternative forms[edit]

References[edit]

  • Oxford English Dictionary. serein n. 1.

Anagrams[edit]

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

serene

  1. inflection of sereen:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive

Esperanto[edit]

Etymology[edit]

serena +‎ -e

Adverb[edit]

serene

  1. calmly, serenely

Italian[edit]

Adjective[edit]

serene

  1. feminine plural of sereno

Latin[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From serēnus +‎ .

Adverb[edit]

serēnē (comparative serēnius, superlative serēnissimē)

  1. clearly, brightly

Etymology 2[edit]

Adjective[edit]

serēne

  1. vocative masculine singular of serēnus

References[edit]

Portuguese[edit]

Verb[edit]

serene

  1. inflection of serenar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish[edit]

Verb[edit]

serene

  1. inflection of serenar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Swedish[edit]

Adjective[edit]

serene

  1. definite natural masculine singular of seren