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Definition: Silence |
SilenceNoun1. The state of being silent (as when no one is speaking); "there was a shocked silence": "he gestured for silence". 2. The absence of sound; "he needed silence in order to sleep"; "the street was quiet". 3. A refusal to speak when expected; "his silence about my contribution was surprising". 4. The trait of keeping things secret. Verb1. Cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!". 2. Keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure; "All dissenters were silenced when the dictator assumed power". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "silence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Information | The various items which are not indicated in the results obtained by an information retrieval although they contain the desired information. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | SILENCE. To silence a man; to knock him down, or stun him. Silence in the court, the cat is pissing; a gird upon any one requiring silence unnecessarily. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| SID | English | Silence descriptor | Computing |
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Synonyms: SilenceSynonyms: muteness (n), quiet (n), secrecy (n), secretiveness (n), hush (v), hush up (v), quieten (v), shut up (v), still (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: sound (n), louden (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Aphony | Noun: aphony, aphonia; dumbness; Adjective: obmutescence; absence of voice, want of voice; dysphony; cacoepy; silence; (taciturnity); raucity; harsh voice; , unmusical voice; ; falsetto, "childish treble mute"; dummy. |
Concealment | Reticence; reserve; mental reserve, reservation; arriere pensee, suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision; silence; (taciturnity); suppression of truth; underhand dealing; closeness, secretiveness; Adjective: mystery. |
Confutation | Verb: confute, refute, disprove; parry, negative, controvert, rebut, confound, disconfirm, redargue, expose, show the fallacy of, defeat; demolish, break; (destroy); overthrow, overturn scatter to the winds, explode, invalidate; silence; put to silence, reduce to silence; clinch an argument, clinch a question; give one a setdown, stop the mouth, shut up; have, have on the hip. |
Impotence | Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear. |
Latency Implication | Noun: {ant. } latency, inexpression; hidden meaning, occult meaning; occultness, mystery, cabala, anagoge; silence; (taciturnity); concealment; more than meets the eye, more than meets the ear; Delphic oracle; le dessous des cartes, undercurrent. |
Quiescence | Quiet, tranquility, calm; repose; peace; dead calm, anticyclone; statue-like repose; silence; not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring; sleep; (inactivity). |
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Screenplays | The dead remember our silence. (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe) Silence! Hold your forked tongue behind your teeth (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) And if it were a hearse there would be silence in the backseat (The Princess Diaries; writing credit: Gina Wendkos) Do you know what it's like to scream in silence three hundred and sixty five days of the year (Millennium; writing credit: Eric Knight) I might as well ask if all those vodka martinis silence the screams of all the men you've killed or if you've found forgiveness in the arms of all those willing women, for the dead ones you failed to protect (GoldenEye; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Michael France) | |
Lyrics | Break the silence (Enjoy the Silence; performing artist: Depeche Mode) Within the sound of silence. (The Sound Of Silence; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) Speak to me, why are you building this thick brick wall to defend me when your silence is my greatest fear (Trouble Me; performing artist: 10,000 Maniacs) Remember the silence living in the dark (Above The Clouds; performing artist: Amber) The language is leaving me in silence (No More "I Love You's"; performing artist: Annie Lennox) | |
Clever | Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. (references; author: Vermont Proverb) Silence is golden, but shouting is fun. (references; author: unknown) The silence of one man can be louder than the screaming of ten boys! (references; author: unknown) True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Claire au pays du silence (1974) Out of Silence (1971) L' Autre silence (1970) Tarzan's Deadly Silence (1970) Québec en silence (1969) | |
Song Titles | Silence Is Golden (performing artist: Four Seasons) Sounds of Silence (performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) SILENCE IS GOLDEN (performing artist: Tremeloes ) | |
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 | A poem by Edward A. Wilson, "The Barrier Silence." In: "Scott's Last Expedition", 1913. Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York. P. xiv. Vol. II. Library Call Number G850 1910 .S35 1913. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | She went on with her game in silence and he, soberly amused. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | In silence the three men watched it burn. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | I won't listen in silence to the profanity of that old heathen. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | There was a dead silence broken only by chuckling laughter. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Silence dissentors". Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Light parted from darkness, day from night, earth from the primal waters, and the voice of Paul Robeson was divided from the silence. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Silence Of The Nature" by Roxana Barbulescu Commentary: "Vidraru Lake, in the Fagarash Mountains - Romania, picture taken on the 5th of July 2003." | "Silence" by Ket Quang Commentary: "Urban Decay." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ben Jonson | Calumnies are answered best with silence. |
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | Great souls endure in silence. |
John Dryden | Secret guilt by silence is betrayed. |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The cruelest lies are often told in silence. |
Samuel Butler | It is tact that is golden, not silence. |
Sophocles | Silence gives the proper grace to women. |
Terence | Their silence is praise enough. |
Thomas Carlyle | Silence is more eloquent than words. |
| Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. | |
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John Locke | 1690 | He that would have been insolent and injurious in the woods of America, would not probably be much better in a throne; where perhaps learning and religion shall be found out to justify all that he shall do to his subjects, and the sword presently silence all those that dare question it: for what the protection of absolute monarchy is, what kind of fathers of their countries it makes princes to be and to what a degree of happiness and security it carries civil society, where this sort of government is grown to perfection, he that will look into the late relation of Ceylon, may easily see. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Yet she could not bear this silence. |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | A gloomy silence ensued |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | To sit, staring at those fixed glazed eyes, in silence for a moment, would play, Scrooge felt, the very deuce with him. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | He listened in silence, and finally promised to confer with the physician |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | As we have remarked, nothing habituates children to silence like misfortune |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | In the silence their dark fire kindled the dusk into a tawny glow |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | I cannot tell if to depart in silence Or bitterly to speak in your reproof Best fitteth my degree or your condition |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The two men walked in silence and smelled the dust their feet kicked into the air. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I was going on to more particulars, when my master commanded me silence. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | They waited in silence while he skinned the fox, then followed the brush a while, and at length turned off into the woods again |
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Health | All this silence can lead to more serious medical and psychosocial problems. (references) | |
Symptoms of sleep apnea may include restless sleep, loud, heavy snoring (often interrupted by silence and then gasps), falling asleep while driving and/or during the day (at work, watching TV, etc.), morning headaches, loss of energy, trouble concentrating, irritability, forgetfulness, mood or behavior changes, anxiety or depression, obesity, and decreased interest in sex. Not all people with sleep apnea experience all of these symptoms and not everyone who has these symptoms has sleep apnea. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Cameroon | These statutes sometimes are invoked by the Government to silence criticism of the Government and government officials. (references) |
Pakistan | A wide spectrum of opposition groups opposed this measure, fearing that it would be used to silence legitimate dissent. (references) | |
South Africa | They are concerned that the Government's alleged attempts to silence expressions of dissent eventually could be codified into law. (references) | |
Economic History | Sao Tome and Principe | Freedom of expression is accepted, and the government has taken no repressive measures to silence critics. (references) |
Czech Republic | The Czechoslovak Communist Party, which won 38% of the vote, held most of the key positions in the government and gradually managed to neutralize or silence the anti-communist forces. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ireland | The act also curtails the right of silence. (references) |
Minorities | Cote d'Ivoire | The practices of traditional indigenous religions often are shrouded by secrecy, and include exclusive initiation rites, oaths of silence, and taboos against writing down orally transmitted history. (references) |
Zimbabwe | However, the Breaking the Silence report prepared by CCJP and the Legal Resources Foundation characterized the government campaign as an effort to impose a one-party state by eliminating support for ZAPU, ZANU's only significant political rival. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation. Altgeld upon his incandescend bed Lay, an attendant demon at his head. "O cruel cook, pray grant me some relief -- Some respite from the roast, however brief." "Remember how on earth I pardoned all Your friends in Illinois when held in thrall." "Unhappy soul! for that alone you squirm O'er fire unquenched, a never-dying worm. "Yet, for I pity your uneasy state, Your doom I'll mollify and pains abate. "Naught, for a season, shall your comfort mar, Not even the memory of who you are." Throughout eternal space dread silence fell; Heaven trembled as Compassion entered Hell. "As long, sweet demon, let my respite be As, governing down here, I'd respite thee." "As long, poor soul, as any of the pack You thrust from jail consumed in getting back." A genial chill affected Altgeld's hide While they were turning him on t'other side. Joel Spate Woop |
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James Lipton | To say the least. There was ten seconds of silence after it. Afterward, in the green room, his wife, Felicia, said to me, that's the first time Jack's ever said that in public. It was an extraordinary moment for us. |
Rush Limbaugh | They'll scream bloody murder if California, Arizona, Oregon or any other state out west tries it, but to keep a liberal, socialist, illegitimate Senate majority, the silence is deafening. |
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | If I thought I could fulfill the duty which I owe to myself and my constituents, to let the subject pass over in silence, I most certainly should not trespass upon the indulgence of this house. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | My own position upon this subject was clear and unequivocal, upon the record of my words and my acts, and it is only recurred to at this time because silence might perhaps be misconstrued. |
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| "Silence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.77% of the time. "Silence" is used about 5,830 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.77% | 5,583 | 1,763 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.1% | 239 | 19,365 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.14% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,830 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "silence" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Silence | Last name | 100 | 78,146 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "silence". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Artaxerxes | N/A | Biblical | The silence of light |
| Dumali | N/A | Biblical | Silence |
| Harosheth | N/A | Biblical | Silence |
| Hashabnah | N/A | Biblical | The silence of the Lord |
| Hashum | N/A | Biblical | Silence |
| Hushai | N/A | Biblical | Their silence |
| Hushathite | N/A | Biblical | Of silence |
| Thahash | N/A | Biblical | That keeps silence |
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Expressions using "silence": break the silence ♦ cone of silence ♦ conspiracy of silence ♦ dead silence ♦ deathly silence ♦ eery silence ♦ endure in silence ♦ enforce silence ♦ i can't keep silence ♦ in silence ♦ keep silence ♦ keep silence for short time ♦ le silence du people est la legon des rois ♦ minute's silence ♦ obligation to observe silence ♦ observe a minute's silence ♦ observe silence ♦ obstinate silence ♦ one minute's silence ♦ pained silence ♦ pass by in silence ♦ pass it by silence ♦ pass over in silence ♦ put to silence ♦ radar silence ♦ radio silence ♦ reduce to silence ♦ religious silence ♦ silence gives consent ♦ silence is golden ♦ silence means consent ♦ silence reign ♦ solemn silence ♦ speech is silver but silence is golden ♦ suffer in silence ♦ tower of Silence ♦ warm Silence Software. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "silence": fear-silence, nearly-silence, near-silence, ultra-silence. | |
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| Language | Translations for "silence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qetësi (calm, calmness, composure, coolness, countenance, dispassion, ease, equanimity, imperturbability, keep quiet, languor, mum, order, peace, placidity, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietness, quietude, serenity, shut up, still, stillness, tranquility, tranquillity, unconcern), pusho, mbyll gojën (gag), mbani qetësi, heshtje (mutism, pause, quiet, quietness, quietude, reticence, still, stillness), hesht (be quiet, hush, keep mum, pipe down, shut up, wrap up), harresë (forgetfulness, limbo, obliteration, oblivion, rasure). (various references) | |
Arabic | هدوء (calm, calmness, composure, countenance, dispassion, ease, philosophy, placidity, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, remission, still, stillness, tranquility, tranquillity), سكوت (hush, keeping quiet, reticence, silent, taciturnity), عانى في صمت, صمت لمدة دقيقة, صمت (clamant, hold one's peace, hold one's tongue, keep mum, keep quiet, keep the ball rolling, keeping quiet, muteness, pause, pipe down, quietness, reticence, shut up, still, taciturnity), خرس (dry up, dumb, muteness, mutism, quiet), السكوت (consent), الصمت (noiselessness), إستراحة (break, breather, lounge, repose, rest, standoff, stoppage, subsidence), أسكت (gag, hunt down, hush, put down, shush, smack of, still). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | успокоявам (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, compose, conciliate, cool, ease, hush, lull, mitigate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quiet, quiet down, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, sleek, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize, unbend), умирявам (calm, pacify), смълчавам, тишина (calm, calmness, mum, quiet, quietness, quietude, serenity, stillness, tranquility), накарвам да млъкне (put down, quench, shellac, shout down, shut up), мълчание (hush, muteness, still), заглушавам (black out, deaden, deafen, drown, dull, intercept, jam, jam out, kill, obstruct, overgrow), забрава (forgetfulness, limbo, oblivion, obliviousness), забвение (oblivion), безмълвие (muteness, still). (various references) | |
Catalan | silenci (calm, quiet). (various references) | |
Chinese | 沉默 (uncommunicative), 沈默 (silent). (various references) | |
Czech | utišit (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, ease, hush, pacify, quiet down, quieten, relieve, rest, sooth, stay, tranquillize), umlèet (hush, muzzle, scotch, shut up, squash, stifle, still), ticho (calm, calmness, hush, quiet, quietness, still, stillness), opomenutí (failure, laches, neglect), mlèení. (various references) | |
Danish | tab (loss). (various references) | |
Dutch | stilte (calm, quiet), rustigheid (calm, calmness, composure, quiet, quietness), rust (break, calm, calmness, composure, intermission, pause, quiet, quietness, recess, repose, rest), kalmte (calm, calmness, composure, quiet, quietness). (various references) | |
Esperanto | silento, kvieto (calm, quiet). (various references) | |
Faeroese | tøgn, kvirra. (various references) | |
Farsi | فروگذاری (Neglect, Omission), سکوت (Calm, Doldrums, Mum, Reticence, Still), ساکت کردن (Appease, Calm, Conciliate, Quiet, Shush, Still, Whist), خموشی , خاموشی (Mum, Still), خاموش شدن (Snuff, Still), ارامش (Calmness, Composure, Equilibrium, Lull, Peace, Quiet, Serenity, Solace), ارام کردن (Acquiesce, Allay, Alleviate, Appease, Assuage, Conciliate, Cool, Gentle, Lull, Pacify, Placate, Quiet, Smooth, Solace, Still). (various references) | |
Finnish | vaitiolo, vaikeneminen, vaientaa (hush up), mykistää, hiljaisuus (lowness, quiet, stillness), äänettömyys. (various references) | |
French | silence (silencing, silent, silentness). (various references) | |
German | Schweigen (be quiet, be silent, cease, clam, clam up, keep quiet, remain silent, say nothing, to be silent, to keep silent, to keep still), Stille (calm, calmness, hush, inactivity, peacefulness, placidity, quiescence, quiet, quietness, seclusion, secrecy, silent, silentness, still, stillness, tranquillity). (various references) | |
Greek | σιγή (quiet, stillness), σιωπή (hist, hush, mum, tut tut). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להשתיק (hush, mute, quieten, shush, shut up, squelch), להדמים (becalm, stall), שתיקות, שתיקה (keeping quiet), שתקנות (quietism, reticence, taciturnity), שקט (calmness, dummy, hush, peaceful, quiescent, quiet, quietude, secluded, silent, still, stillness, tranquil), אלם (dumb, dumbness, dummy, hush, mute, muteness, silent, voiceless), חרישות (deafness), האלמות (dumbness), הס (hush), דממה (hush, muteness, quiet, still, stillness), דמי (bloody, gory, haematic, quiet, stillness), דומיה (quitness, stillness), דומה (akin, alike, analogous, grave, like, resembling, same, similar, stillness, such). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hallgatás (hush, mutism), csend (calm, hush, quiescence, quiescency, quietude, still, stillness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | membungkamkan (stiffle), kesunyian (desolation, solitude), kebungkaman (stillness), kebisuan (muteness). (various references) | |
Italian | silenzio (hush, keep quiet, quietness, still). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 静寂, 疎遠 (estrangement, neglect), 沈黙 (reticence). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しずけさ (calm, hush, serenity, stillness), しんかん (annexe, fuse, heart, Imperial letter, new book, new patient, new publication, shake, Shinto priest, silent, still), そえん (estrangement, neglect), ぶさた (neglect to call, neglect to write, neglecting to stay in contact), ふご, ふげんふご, ふげん (additional remarks, calumny, false charge, groundless rumor, postscript, Samantabhadra, saying in addition, slander, Universal Compassion), せいじゃく, むごん, サイレンス , もくねん (quietness), ちんもく (reticence), だんまり (pantomime, refusing explanation, taciturnity, without giving notice). (various references) | |
Korean | 침묵. (various references) | |
Manx | tostid (hush, incommunicativeness, lull, quietness, reticence, tacitness, taciturnity), tostaghey (confutation, confute, quiet, quieten), tostagh (incommunicative, noiseless, reserved, reticent, silent, tacit, taciturn), fast (quiet), cur ny host (argue down, confutation, quieten). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ilencesay.(various references) | |
Polish | spokój (calm, quiet). (various references) | |
Portuguese | silêncio (dead, dumbness, muteness, still), sossego (calm, ease, peace, placidity, quiet, requiem, rest, time-out), calma (aplomb, calm, calmness, composure, cool, coolness, countenance, détente, easygoing, halcyon, hush, imperturbability, indifference, lenience, leniency, phlegm, placidity, quiet, quietness, self-possession, serenity, still, temper, tranquility, tranquillity). (various references) | |
Romanian | stinge (allay, annihilate, annul, appease, baste, choke, die, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, hush, quench, quit, slack, slake, smother, wither), sst (hist, hush, mum, mum's the word, sh, st), taci (be silent, cut it short, hush, keep quiet, lie down, shut up), tãcere (calm, dumbness, hush, mum, peace, quiet, quietness, still, stillness, tranquillity, voicelessness), reduce la tãcere (extinguish, floor, put down, put to silence, reduce to silence, squelch, strangle, talk down), pace (calm, composure, ease, easiness, harmony, peace, peacefulness, serenity), muţenie (dumbness, muteness, mutism), linişte (calm, calmness, composure, ease, easiness, hist, hush, lull, pax, peace, placidity, q.t., quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, rest, serenity, sobriety, soft, still, stillness, stop talking, temper, tranquillity), calm (calm, calmly, calmness, collected, collectedness, composed, composure, cool, coolness, dispassionate, easily, easy, equal, equanimity, even, even tempered, evenness, genial, halcyon, lull, passionless, peace, peaceful, peacefully, phlegmatic, placid, placidity, poise, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, sedate, serene, serenity, smooth, sober, sobriety, still, temper, tranquil, tranquillity, unhurried, unruffled, untroubled), amuţi (die, dumbfound, strike), ţist (hist, sh). (various references) | |
Russian | тише (be quiet, mum), тишина (calm, calmness, peace, quiet, quietness, quietude, silentness, still), молчание (mum), заставить замолчать (compel silence, gag, shush, squash, squelcher), заглушать тишина, безмолвие. (various references) | |
Scottish | sochd, tosd (quietness : 'na thosd, silent). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ućutkati (shush), tišina (calm, hush, quietness, quietude, still, stillness, tranquility), ćutanje (hush). (various references) | |
Spanish | silencio (calm, hush, keep quiet, mum, pause, quiet, quietness, rest, still), acallar (be silent, blanket, hush, lay, quieten, still, to appease). (various references) | |
Swedish | tystnad (hush, oyes, oyez, quiet, quietude), tysthet, stillhet (calm, calmness, hush, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietness, quietude, serenity, still, stillness, tranquility, tranquillity). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำให้เงียบ (hush, hush up, sedate), การนิ่งเงียบ, การปกปิด (concealment), คำสั่งให้เงียบ, ความเงียบ (hush, sedation). (various references) | |
Turkish | susun (peace), susturmak (blanket, Burke, confute, cut short, gag, hush, outtalk, quiet, quieten, score off, settle smb.'s hash, shush, shut up, squelch, still, Stow, wither), susma, suskunluk (hush, reticence, speechlessness, taciturnity), sessizlik (hush, muteness, mutism, noiselessness, peace, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, speechlessness, stillness, taciturnity), ses çıkarmama, sükut (still), sır tutma (concealment, discreetness, hugger mugger, huggermugger, keeping secret, reticence, seal, secrecy, secretion, secretiveness), bastırmak (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, bear against, beat down, bottle up, Burke, choke, compress, crucify, depress, drown, extinguish, flow, gulp, gulp down, hold down, keep down, keep in, keep under, outtalk, overbear, overtake, pocket, push down, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, restrain, set in, settle, settle in, smother, smother up, squash, squelch, stamp, stifle, strangle, subdue, submerge, suppress, swallow, throttle back, throttle down, weigh, weigh down, whelm, whip), ateşkese zorlamak. (various references) | |
Turkmen | geplemezlik, dymюyk. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тихше, тиша (calm, calmness, hush, quiet, quietness, quietude, still), глушити (deafen), мовчання (dumbness, hush, mum, whist), заспокоїти, забуття (condonation, effacement, forgetfulness, limbo, neglect, obliteration, oblivion, obliviousness), примусити замовкнути (gag, shout smb. down, shush, still), перебороти (cope with, overbear, overcome). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự yên tĩnh (peace, quiet, quietness, still, stillness, tranquillity), sự tĩnh mịch (stillness), sự lặng thinh (muteness, mutism, speechlessness). (various references) | |
Welsh | taw (that), gostegu (abate, quell, still), gosteg (banns), distewi (calm, quiet), distawrwydd (quiet). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | sig, si-ga, tukur. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | confutare, conpresserit, conpresserunt, conprimaris, conprimebant, conprimentem, conprimerent, conprimit, conprimunt, depresserant, deprime, deprimebant, deprimentes, deprimentium, deprimeris, reticentia, silentiô, silentio, silentium. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | silence. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 22, Verse 34 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oi de farisaioi akousanteV oti efimwsen touV saddoukaiouV sunhcqhsan epi to auto |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Pharisaei autem audientes quod silentium inposuisset Sadducaeis convenerunt in unum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Þa þa fariseiscan ge-hirdon þt hehet þa saduceisscen stille beon.þa eoden hyo to-gadere. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Fariseis herden that he hadde put silence to Saduceis, and camen togidere. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | When the Pharises had hearde how yt he had put the Saduces to silence they drewe to gedder |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were assembled about him. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But the Pharisees, hearing how the mouths of the Sadducees had been stopped, came together; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 22, Verse 34 |
| Bulgarian | А фарисеите, като чуха, че смълчал садукеите, събраха се заедно. |
| Cebuano | ¶ Apan sa pagkadungog sa mga Fariseo nga napahilum niya ang mga Saduceo, sila nanagtapok. |
| Croatian | A kad su farizeji èuli kako ušutka saduceje, okupiše se, |
| Danish | Men da Farisæerne hørte, at han havde stoppet Munden på Saddukæerne, forsamlede de sig. |
| Dutch | En den Farizeen, gehoord hebbende, dat Hij den Sadduceen den mond gestopt had, zijn te zamen bijeenvergaderd. |
| Finnish | Mutta kun fariseukset kuulivat, että hän oli tukkinut saddukeuksilta suun, kokoontuivat he yhteen; |
| French | Les pharisiens, ayant appris qu`il avait réduit au silence les sadducéens, se rassemblèrent, |
| German | Da aber die Pharisäer hörten, wie er den Sadduzäern das Maul gestopft hatte, versammelten sie sich. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Lè farizyen yo tande jan Jezi te fèmen bouch sadiseyen yo, yo tout sanble. Yo te vle pran Jezi nan pèlen. |
| Hungarian | A farizeusok pedig, hallván, hogy a sadduczeusokat elnémította vala, egybegyûlének; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pada waktu orang-orang Farisi mendengar bahwa Yesus sudah membuat orang-orang Saduki tidak bisa berkata apa-apa lagi, mereka berkumpul. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah orang Parisi mendengar akan hal Yesus menumpatkan mulut orang Saduki, lalu mereka itupun berhimpunlah. |
| Italian | Allora i farisei, udito che egli aveva chiuso la bocca ai sadducei, si riunirono insieme |
| Manx Gaelic | Agh tra va ny Phariseeyn er chlashtyn dy row eh er chur ny Sadduceeyn nyn dhost, v'ad er nyn jaglym cooidjagh. |
| Maori | ¶ No te rongonga ia o nga Parihi, kua kapi i a ia te mangai o nga Haruki, ka whakamine tahi ratou. |
| Norwegian | Men da fariseerne hørte at han hadde stoppet munnen på sadduseerne, kom de sammen; |
| Portuguese | Os fariseus, quando souberam, que ele fizera emudecer os saduceus, reuniram-se todos; |
| Rumanian | Cknd au auzit Fariseii cq Isus a astupat gura Saducheilor, s`au strkns la un loc. |
| Russian | б ЖБТЙУЕЙ, ХУМЩЫБЧ, ЮФП пО РТЙЧЕМ УБДДХЛЕЕЧ Ч НПМЮБОЙЕ, УПВТБМЙУШ ЧНЕУФЕ. |
| Shuar | ¶ Satuséu Jesusan aiktinian tujinkiarmatai Pariséu nuna antukar iruntrarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Entonces los fariseos, al oír que había hecho callar a los saduceos, se reunieron de común acuerdo. |
| Swahili | Mafarisayo waliposikia kwamba Yesu alikuwa amewanyamazisha Masadukayo, wakakutana pamoja. |
| Swedish | Men när fariséerna fingo höra att han hade stoppat munnen till på sadducéerna, samlade de sig tillhopa; |
| Uma | ¶ To Saduki uma-pi tepehono', apa' nadagi-ramo Yesus. Kara'epe-na to Parisi toe, moromu wo'o-ramo-rawo mpopali' akala-ra mpo'akalai Yesus. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "silence": silenced, silencer, silencers, silences. (additional references) | |
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"Silence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Filenko, Milenci, Milenko, Selnec, Semence, Sibenici, sidence, siece, silane, silberne, Silec, silen, Silencio, silense, silience, Sillence, silnce, slance, slience, solence, Zelenock. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "silence" (pronounced sī"luns) |
| 4 | -l u n s | ambivalence, ambulance, balance, benevolence, condolence, counterbalance, equivalence, excellence, imbalance, insolence, nonviolence, opulence, parlance, pestilence, petulance, prevalence, resemblance, semblance, surveillance, turbulence, unbalance, Valence, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
| 3 | -u n s | absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, abeyance, abhorrence, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, belligerence, beneficence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, essence, evanescence, evidence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, utterance, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: license, selenic. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: clines, enisle, ensile, nieces, senile. | |
-2 letters: ceils, cense, cines, cline, lenes, lenis, lense, liens, lines, niece, scene, seine, since, slice. | |
-3 letters: cees, ceil, cels, cine, eels, else, ices, isle, lees, leis, lens, lice, lien, lies, line, lins, nice, nils, seel, seen, sene, sice, sine. | |
-4 letters: cee, cel, cis, eel, els, ens, ice, ins, lee. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-l-n-s" | |
+1 letter: centiles, cineoles, declines, leucines, licences, licensed, licensee, licenser, licenses, reclines, salience, silenced, silencer, silences. | |
+2 letters: bernicles, chenilles, decliners, denticles, elections, encircles, fencibles, fluencies, insectile, insolence, larcenies, latencies, leniences, lenticels, licencees, licencers, licensees, licensers, licensure, lucencies, luminesce, mescaline, necklines, pencilers, recliners, reliances, relicense, saliences, schlieren, selecting, selection, silencers, sincerely, splenetic, stenciled, stenciler, valencies, vernicles, violences. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Frequency | 17. Names: Derived from 18. Expressions 19. Expressions: Internet 20. Translations: Modern | 21. Translations: Ancient 22. Bible Trace 23. Abbreviations 24. Acronyms | 25. Derivations 26. Rhymes 27. Anagrams 28. Bibliography |
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