silence
/ˈsaɪləns/ nounDefinition
NO SOUND [U] › when there is no sound: The three men ate in silence. No sound broke the silence of the wintry landscape.
NO TALKING [U] › when someone says nothing about a particular subject: She ended her silence yesterday and spoke to a TV reporter about the affair.
PERIOD OF TIME [C] › a period of time when there is no sound or no talking: an awkward/embarrassed silence There was a short silence while she thought about it.
(Definition of silence noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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