Meaning of silent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of the Silent Generation.
   in-plural
2. That which is silent; a time of silence.
   uncountable
3. Acronym of syndrome of irreversible lithium-effectuated neurotoxicity.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
4. A silent movie

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Examples

“Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night.”

“More than 40 films will be shown spanning the past seventy-five years, including early silents and talkies, contemporary productions, foreign and American films, documentaries, underground works and television shows.”

“From Ali (technically a Silent who was born in 1942), to Tommie Smith's medal-stand protest, to Joe Namath's Super Bowl prediction to the hair-raising Oakland A's and the raucous Bronx Zoo Yankees of the 1970s, to the outbursts of Connors and McEnroe on the tennis court, to King's tireless push for women's equality off it, this was a generation unafraid of offering opinions.”

“In a somewhat bizarre set of survey data from 2015, 33 percent of Millennials identified as Gen X, and 8 percent said that they were Boomers. Fifteen percent of Gen Xers said that they identified as Boomers, while a baffled 2 percent of Boomers and 4 percent of Silents thought of themselves as Millennials.”

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