hush
noun/hʌʃ/
/hʌʃ/
[singular, uncountable]- a period of silence, especially following a lot of noise, or when people are expecting something to happen
- There was a deathly hush in the theatre.
- A hush descended over the waiting crowd.
- (British English, informal) Can we have a bit of hush? (= please be quiet)
Extra Examples- A deathly hush settled around the stadium.
- A sudden hush fell over the room as the head teacher entered.
- A hush fell over the landscape.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- sudden
- deathly
- eerie
- …
- descend
- fall
Word Originmid 16th cent.: back-formation from obsolete husht ‘silent’ (taken to be a past participle), from an interjection husht ‘quiet!’
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