serene
English
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[edit]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)
- Calm, peaceful, unruffled.
- Synonyms: cool-headed, placid; see also Thesaurus:calm
- 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.
- Without worry or anxiety; unaffected by disturbance.
- Synonyms: easygoing, unconcerned; see also Thesaurus:carefree
- 1908, Andy Adams, Reed Anthony, Cowman:
- 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.
- (archaic) Fair and unclouded (as of the sky); clear; unobscured.
- 1717, Alexander Pope, “Winter. The Fourth Pastoral. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC, page 30:
- Now ſleeping flocks on their ſoft fleeces lie, / The moon, ſerene in glory, mounts the sky, […]
- 1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], published 1753, →OCLC, page 32:
- Full many a gem of pureſt ray ſerene / The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: […]
- 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VI, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
- A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy.
- Used as part of certain titles, originally to indicate sovereignty or independence.
- Her Serene Highness
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]peaceful, calm
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fair and unclouded
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part of royal title
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Verb
[edit]serene (third-person singular simple present serenes, present participle serening, simple past and past participle serened)
- (transitive) To make serene.
- 1708, [John Philips], “Book II”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 68:
- The Hoary Froſts, and Northern Blaſts take care / Thy muddy Bev'rage to ſerene, and drive / Præcipitant the baſer, ropy Lees.
- a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 34, lines 866–867:
- When heaven and earth, as if contending, vye / To raiſe his being, and ſerene his ſoul.
Noun
[edit]serene (plural serenes)
- (poetic) Serenity; clearness; calmness.
- 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
- the serene of heaven
- 1742, Edward Young, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality:
- To their master is denied / To share their sweet serene.
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)
- A fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset.
- 1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, Act III, scene vii, signatures H2, recto – H2, verso:
- Some ſerene blaſt me, or dire lightning ſtrike / This my offending face.
Alternative forms
[edit]References
[edit]- Oxford English Dictionary. serein n. 1.
Anagrams
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Adjective
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- inflection of sereen:
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Italian
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Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adverb
[edit]serēnē (comparative serēnius, superlative serēnissimē)
Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]serēne
References
[edit]- “serene”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Portuguese
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Spanish
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- inflection of serenar:
Swedish
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