Translation
clear and cloudless; serene, untroubled
Word origin
From Latin serenus, said of a bright cloudless sky. English serene came the same way, and so did the Spanish sereno, the night watchman who called out that the weather was fine.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- serenus
- English cognates
- serene, serenity
Examples
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The sky was clear, without a single cloud.
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It was a clear, cold morning in January.
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She answered in a serene voice, as if nothing had happened.
Start with the weather, not the mood. English hears serene as a word about people, so it is easy to file next to calm and stop there. The dictionaries put the other sense first: describes a sky or a day that is bright and without cloud or wind. , frosta . The human sense is the extension, and it means untroubled and showing no visible strain: , o.
Where it sits against its neighbours. Trankvila at rank 330 is the everyday calm, the one you use for a flat sea and for telling somebody to settle down. Kvieta is stillness, the absence of noise and movement. is neither of those exactly: it is clearness, whether of the sky or of a face, and it is the one of the three that carries a faint literary lift. Say to a frightened child. Save for the sky.
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