silence
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English silence, from Old French silence, from Latin silentium (“silence”), from silēns (“quiet, silent”, present participle of silēre) + -ium. Displaced native Old English swīġe and sālnes.
Base: silēns
Affixes: -ium
Inflected forms:
form: silences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: silences
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: silencing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: silenced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: silenced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The absence of any sound.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: When the motor stopped, the silence was almost deafening.
Words like violence break the silence / Come crashing in into my little world
deadly silence
in silence
total silence
gloss: The act of refraining from speaking.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: "You have the right to silence," said the police officer.
Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
1832, Daniel Webster, "a convention", quoted in The History of the Union, and of the Constitution by Charles Chauncey Burr
The administration itself keeps a profound silence.
gloss: Refraining from speaking, for purposes of prayer or meditation; especially, a form of worship practiced by the Society of Friends (Quakers) during meetings.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: During silence a message came to me that there was that of God in every person.
gloss: To make (someone or something) silent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Can you silence the crowd, so we can start the show?
gloss: To repress the expression of something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Women, as well as children, have their thoughts or emotions routinely silenced.
gloss: To suppress criticism, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Silence the critics.
Silence the doubters.
A state ideology, mixing nationalism, and basic Marxist economics, going under the name "Juche", was constructed, and Kim Il-sung effectively silenced, disposed of and cleared away any opposition, isolating the country and exercising an iron grip on the military, the state media and the government and party organs.
gloss: To block gene expression.
pos: verb
gloss: To murder.
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
examples: They, and others through the years, believed Ruby must have acted on his own since there was no logic to the supposition that anyone could trust an uncontrollable, unreliable loudmouth like Ruby to silence Oswald.
gloss: Be silent.
pos: intj
tags: imperative
examples: Silence! Enough of your insolence!
(in response to laughter from the audience)
Silence! I kill you!
Synonyms: inaudibility
quietness
black noise
crickets
hush
noiselessness
quiet
roo
silence
stillness
soundlessness
whistness
Antonyms: audibility
loudness
vocality
sound
speech
talk
Related words: silent
code of silence
cone of silence
conspiracy of silence
omertà
one could hear a pin drop
quiet as a mouse
Sicilian code
silent as the grave
silent as the tomb
wall of silence
be quiet
make silent
stop talking
quiet
noise
loud
deaf
audible
Derived words: argument from silence
blue code of silence
blue wall of silence
break silence
break the silence
code of silence
cone of silence
conspiracy of silence
dead silence
deafening silence
election silence
in silence
loud silence
moment of silence
nonsilence right to silence
pact of silence
radio silence
silence camp
silence is consent
silence is golden
silence is oppression
silence is violence
speech is silver, silence is golden
suffer in silence
tower of silence
two-minute silence
wall of silence
desilence
nonsilencing
outsilence
resilence
silenceable
silencer
unsilence
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: stilswye
lang: Bulgarian
word: мълчание
roman: mǎlčanie
lang: Dutch
word: zwijgen
lang: Finnish
word: vaikeneminen
lang: Finnish
word: hiljeneminen
lang: German
word: Schweigen
lang: Greek
word: σιωπή
roman: siopí
lang: Hungarian
word: hallgatás
lang: Hungarian
word: hallgatni
lang: Macedonian
word: мо́лчење
roman: mólčenje
lang: Spanish
word: sho