Silents (original) (raw)

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A movie without a soundtrackplay

Synonyms:

silent movie; silent picture; silents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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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