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silent films

silent films is the plural of silent film.

Meaning of silent film

Noun

silent film (countable and uncountable, plural silent films)

  1. (retronym) A film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue.
    • Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's...1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88

Questions about silent films

What is silent films the plural of?
Silent films is the plural of silent film.

Words near silent films in the dictionary

  1. silent disco
  2. silent discos
  3. silent e
  4. silent e's
  5. silent film
  6. silent films
  7. silent forest syndrome
  8. silent fox
  9. silent fox gesture
  10. Silent Generation
  11. Silent Grove

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