Get to know Sylvian better with 5 real example sentences, the meaning.
Sylvian in a sentence
Sylvian meaning
- Of or relating to Franciscus Sylvius (1614–1672; born Franz de le Boë), Dutch physician and scientist.
- Of or relating to the asteroid (511) Davida.
Using Sylvian
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or relating to Franciscus Sylvius (1614–1672; born Franz de le Boë), Dutch physician and scientist. | Of or relating to the asteroid (511) Davida.
Context around Sylvian
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sylvian
- In this selection, "sylvian" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, wing, featured, mahuza, almost and declined stand out and add context to how "sylvian" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include contributed to sylvian s twenty and orie wing sylvian mahuza and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sylvian" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sylvian
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Fripp contributed to Sylvian's twenty-minute track "Steel Cathedrals" from his Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities album of 1985. (20 words)
The Lions replied with five tries through lock Marvin Orie, wing Sylvian Mahuza and replacement forwards Malcolm Marx (2) and Lourens Erasmus. (22 words)
Sylvian declined the invitation, but proposed a possible collaboration between the two that would eventually become a tour of Japan and Italy in the spring of 1992. (27 words)
The live document Damage was released in 1994, as was the joint venture, Redemption – Approaching Silence, which featured Sylvian's ambient sound sculptures (Approaching Silence) accompanying Fripp reading his own text (Redemption). (32 words)
Other contributors were soon-to-be King Crimson member Trey Gunn on Chapman Stick and Jerry Marotta (who, like Sylvian, almost became a member of King Crimson) on drums. (29 words)
Sylvian declined the invitation, but proposed a possible collaboration between the two that would eventually become a tour of Japan and Italy in the spring of 1992. (27 words)
Example sentences (5)
The Lions replied with five tries through lock Marvin Orie, wing Sylvian Mahuza and replacement forwards Malcolm Marx (2) and Lourens Erasmus.
Fripp contributed to Sylvian's twenty-minute track "Steel Cathedrals" from his Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities album of 1985.
Other contributors were soon-to-be King Crimson member Trey Gunn on Chapman Stick and Jerry Marotta (who, like Sylvian, almost became a member of King Crimson) on drums.
Sylvian declined the invitation, but proposed a possible collaboration between the two that would eventually become a tour of Japan and Italy in the spring of 1992.
The live document Damage was released in 1994, as was the joint venture, Redemption – Approaching Silence, which featured Sylvian's ambient sound sculptures (Approaching Silence) accompanying Fripp reading his own text (Redemption).