Usually means: Quiet, making no audible sound.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word silent:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. silent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. silent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. silent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. silent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. silent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Silent, silent, silent: Wordnik
  7. silent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. SILENT, silent: Wiktionary
  9. silent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. silent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Silent (band), Silent (disambiguation), Silent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Silent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. silent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. silent: Rhymezone
  15. silent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. silent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. Silent: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. silent: Free Dictionary
  19. silent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. silent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. silent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. silent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  23. silent: Infoplease Dictionary
  24. silent, the silent: Dictionary.com
  25. silent: Online Etymology Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. silent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. silent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SILENT: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. silent: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. silent: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Silent: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See silently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
adjective:  Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
adjective:  Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed.
adjective:  (pronunciation) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent.
adjective:  Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
adjective:  (technology) With the sound turned off; usually on silent or in silent mode.
adjective:  (technology) Without audio capability.
adjective:  Hidden, unseen.
adjective:  Of an edit or change to a text, not explicitly acknowledged.
adjective:  (genetics) Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence.
adjective:  Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms.
adjective:  Of distilled spirit: having no flavour or odour.
noun:  (uncountable) That which is silent; a time of silence.
noun:  A silent movie
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) A member of the Silent Generation.
noun:  Acronym of syndrome of irreversible lithium-effectuated neurotoxicity.

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