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SILENT MOVIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silent movie mean? 

SILENT MOVIE (noun)
  The noun SILENT MOVIE has 1 sense:

1. a movie without a soundtrackplay

  Familiarity information: SILENT MOVIE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SILENT MOVIE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A movie without a soundtrack

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

silent movie; silent picture; silents

Hypernyms ("silent movie" 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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