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Definition of Silent picture
1. Noun. A movie without a soundtrack.
Generic synonyms: Film, Flick, Motion Picture, Motion-picture Show, Movie, Moving Picture, Moving-picture Show, Pic, Picture, Picture Show
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silent Picture
Literary usage of Silent picture
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Here in Moscow the silent picture owed its artistic perfection not only to the
individual achievements of outstanding experts but also to the collective ..."
2. The Essential Faith of the Universal Church: Deduced from the Sacred Records by Harriet Martineau (1833)
"... that the material frame of the universe, fair as it is, is but as a silent
picture till a ... silent picture ..."
3. Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and by Thomas Campbell (1841)
"... binds my arm- It could not come from shepherd's farm : It only would that arm
annoy, If I were but a shepherd's boy. " And 0 thou silent picture fair, ..."
4. Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices and by Thomas Campbell (1844)
"Aud O thou silent picture fair, That lovest to smile u]iou me there, О say, and
fill my heart with joy. That I am not a shepherd's buy. ..."
5. The Life and Times of Aonio Paleario: Or, A History of the Italian Reformers by M. Young (1860)
"... a silent picture cannot pourtray a living soul. If I had been present when it
was first begun I would have had it done in profile, as we see in the ..."
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