Silence; freedom from noise; abstinence from speech, taciturnity.

The state or condition when nothing is audible; complete quietness or stillness; an absence of all sound or noise.

Silence, quiet.

Quietness.

Absence of excessive motion, noise, or bustle; silence; stillness, calm; an instance of this.

intransitive and transitive. = whist, v.1

Silence, quiet, hush.

The quality or condition of being mute or silent; inability to speak or make a sound; wordlessness, silence. Also figurative.

Silence.

Stillness, quiet. Now only poetic or rhetorical.

Silence, stillness.

Silence, stillness.

The condition of being silent or still; absence of sound or noise; silence, stillness, noiselessness. Also: a state of silence.

The state or quality of being noiseless.

Absence of speech; muteness.

An utterance of the exclamation ‘Sh!’ Also transferred, quiet. Cf. hush, n.2 1a.

a silence heavy with significance; spec. a conspicuous failure to respond to or comment on a matter.

Silence; quiet; esp.(in a social environment) silence instilled when people refrain from speech or noise.