Silver-medal meaning

A medal, typically silver in color or composition, given as an award to the person coming in second in a competition, race, etc.
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A medal made of, or having the colour of, silver, used as a prize for finishing in second place.
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(by extension) Finishing in second position, being a runner-up.
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Silver-medal Sentence Examples

  • He also won a silver medal for the 200m.

  • In 1871 he had so far advanced as to receive the silver medal of the Edinburgh Society of Arts for a paper suggesting improvements in lighthouse apparatus.

  • 1876), was during the World War commandant of the first British ambulance unit on the Italian front, and received in 1915 the Italian silver medal for valour.

  • He was a Prince of Mecca, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, the holder of the Croix de Guerre (with palms), the Italian silver medal arid various British war medals.

  • Jessica Mendoza, aged nine, was the youngest member of the English squad, which went on to clinch a team silver medal.

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