Usually means: Absence of any audible sound.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. silence: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. silence, silence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. silence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. silence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. silence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Silence, silence: Wordnik
  7. silence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. silence: Wiktionary
  9. silence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. silence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. silence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. silence: Dictionary.com
  13. silence (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. silence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Silence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. silence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. silence: Rhymezone
  19. silence, silence (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. silence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. silence: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. silence: Free Dictionary
  23. silence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. silence: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. silence: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. silence: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. silence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. silence: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. silence: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Silence: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. silence: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. S'ilence, silence, silence: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See silenced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The absence of any sound.
noun:  The act of refraining from speaking.
noun:  Refraining from speaking, for purposes of prayer or meditation; especially, a form of worship practiced by the Society of Friends (Quakers) during meetings.
verb:  (transitive) To make (someone or something) silent.
verb:  (transitive) To repress the expression of something.
verb:  (transitive) To suppress criticism, etc.
verb:  (molecular biology) To block gene expression.
verb:  (euphemistic) To murder.
noun:  (rare) A female given name from English.

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