silents
SaySY-luhnts/ˈsaɪlənts/
- 1Plural of silent.
Early Hollywood silents relied on title cards to carry the dialogue.
Film historians have restored dozens of silents from the 1920s.
Note
Only two of the noun's meanings take this plural. The everyday one is cinema: silents are silent movies, the noun shortened from the adjective in silent film. The other is generational, since members of the Silent Generation are usually spoken of in the plural. The uncountable meanings, a time of silence and the medical acronym SILENT, have no plural at all.
silents is a form of silent
silent, noun: A motion picture made without recorded sound, especially without spoken dialogue. Full entry
- Forms
- silentsilents plural
- Spelling
- silent → silents: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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