- the state of being calm and without much noise
- the quiet of his own room
- the quiet of the early morning
- I go to the library for a little peace and quiet.
Extra Examples- A machine gun shattered the quiet.
- A man's voice was calling for quiet.
- She made sure she had times of quiet in which to write.
- a period of comparative quiet
- in the sudden quiet that followed the gunshot
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- relative
- sudden
- awful
- …
- break
- pierce
- shatter
- …
- follow
- peace and quiet
Word OriginMiddle English (originally as a noun denoting peace as opposed to war): via Old French, based on Latin quies, quiet- ‘repose, quiet’.
Idioms
See quiet in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryon the quiet
- without telling anyone synonym secretly
- He’d been meeting her on the quiet.
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