OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 11335

serene

/səˈɹiːn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
sereno
Calm, peaceful, unruffled.
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…
She looked at her students with joviality and a serene mentality.
sereno
Fair and unclouded (as of the sky); clear; unobscured.
A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy.
sereno
Used as part of certain titles, originally to indicate sovereignty or independence.
Her Serene Highness