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SILENTS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does silents mean?
• SILENTS (noun)
The noun SILENTS has 1 sense:
1. a movie without a soundtrack
Familiarity information: SILENTS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A movie without a soundtrack
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
silent movie; silent picture; silents
Hypernyms ("silents" is a kind of...):
film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)
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