silent movie
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈsaɪlənt ˈmuːvi/
- US
:
película muda
- Many people enjoy the charm of watching silent movies filled with expressive acting and elaborate title cards.
- silent movie star
- silent movie theater
- silent movie actor
But if we just turn the volume off and watched them like a silent movie, we learn everything we need to learn.
- But if we just turn the volume off and watched them like a silent movie, we learn everything we need to learn.
- And, and so so in the film then we also get an allusion to and a representation of silent movies.
- Well, turn the last few interactions with him into a silent movie, black and white movie in your mind and take out what he's saying and just look at how he's behaving.
Examples
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Classic silent movie music plays over these scenes.
Fiction book (1999) -
Your husband said his favorite silent movie star is Rudolph Valentino.
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This girl took me to a silent movie last night.
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The perfect setting for a silent movie queen.
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As I look back on it, I see our life together as a wonderful old silent movie.
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Jake started out in silent movies.
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Subsequent literary works featured new approaches to American silent movies from this group.
Academic text (2017) -
You've got to go back to German silent movies to find anything like it.
Fiction book (1998) -
It belonged to a silent movie star.
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The video reminds Andrea of a silent movie.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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6.1
A movie made without recorded sound that often has live music
Old movies made before sound, using acting and writing on the screen to tell the story
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a film without recorded sound' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'silent' (lacking audible sound) with 'movie' (a film). This adjective+noun composition is a basic, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Silent movie comes from early films that had no recorded sound: the word silent meant 'no recorded sound', so actors used big faces and gestures and short written cards on the screen while the cinema played live music. So, silent movie means a film made 'without spoken dialogue'.