Serene

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːn

From Middle English, from Latin serēnus ("clear, cloudless, untroubled").

Full definition of serene

Adjective

1. Peaceful, calm, unruffled.
   She looked at her students with joviality and a serene mentality.
• 1910, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price Chapter 1, 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.
2. Without worry or anxiety; unaffected by disturbance.
3. (archaic) fair and unclouded (as of the sky); clear; unobscured.
• Alexander PopeThe moon serene in glory mounts the sky.
• GrayFull many a gem of purest ray serene
  The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
• 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Chapter 6, A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy.
4. Used as part of certain titles.Her Serene Highness

Related terms

• serenity

Verb

1. (transitive) To make serene.Heaven and earth, as if contending, vie
   To raise his being, and serene his soul. — Thomson.

Noun

1. (poetic) Serenity; clearness; calmness.
• Southeythe serene of heaven
• YoungTo their master is denied
  To share their sweet serene.
2. Evening air; night chill.
• Ben JonsonSome serene blast me.

Old French serein ("evening"), Vulgar Latin *serānum — from substantive use of sērum, neuter of sērus ("late") + -ānus suffix.

Noun

1. A fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset.

Synonyms

• serein