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Definition of "silent film" []

  • A film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. (noun)

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Use "silent film" in a sentence
  • "Had Irene and Vernon Castle done a silent film in, say, 1921?"
  • "Just last month, Ms. Félix-Didier said, a print was found of a Soviet-era silent film long thought to have been lost: Yevgeny Chervyakov's 1928"
  • "But she was determined not to follow the example of the former silent film star and wife of their colleague Jeno Szatmary who called all her friends for help when they dragged her husband from his bed at midnight and who, as a result, was deported to an internment camp somewhere in the countryside."