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Serene
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- 1 Calm, peaceful, unruffled.
"She looked at her students with joviality and a serene mentality."
- 2 Without worry or anxiety; unaffected by disturbance.
"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 Fair and unclouded (as of the sky); clear; unobscured. archaic
"Now ſleeping flocks on their ſoft fleeces lie, / The moon, ſerene in glory, mounts the sky, […]"
- 4 Used as part of certain titles, originally to indicate sovereignty or independence.
"Her Serene Highness"
- 1 completely clear and fine wordnet
- 2 not agitated; without losing self-possession wordnet
- 1 A female given name from English. A rare variant of Serena.
"The Prince according to the former token, / Which faire Serene to him delivered had, […]"
- 1 Serenity; clearness; calmness. poetic
"the serene of heaven"
- 2 A fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset.
"Some ſerene blaſt me, or dire lightning ſtrike / This my offending face."
- 1 To make serene. transitive
"The Hoary Froſts, and Northern Blaſts take care / Thy muddy Bev'rage to ſerene, and drive / Præcipitant the baſer, ropy Lees."
Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Latin serēnus (“clear, cloudless, untroubled”).
From Middle English, borrowed from Latin serēnus (“clear, cloudless, untroubled”).
From Middle English, borrowed from Latin serēnus (“clear, cloudless, untroubled”).
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.
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