Meaning

9 senses
  1. A person who does not have the power of speech.

    Stummer, Stumme

    немо́йnemój

    німи́йnimýj

  2. A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.

  3. An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.

  4. An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.

  5. A mute swan.

  6. (Internet)An action of muting, especially in a discussion forum as a penalty for breaking rules.

  7. The faeces of a hawk or falcon.

  8. (obsolete)A stopped consonant; a stop.

  9. (obsolete)An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.

    a deaf person who is unable to speak

Examples

72 sentences
  1. Helen Keller was blind, deaf and mute.

    Хелен Келлер була сліпою, глухою і німою.

    ruХелен Келлер была слепой, глухой и немой.

    deHelen Keller war blind, taub und stumm.

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  2. Deaf-mute people can use sign language to communicate.

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  3. Tom muted his microphone.

    deTom schaltete sein Mikrofon stumm.

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  4. Tom pretended to be mute.

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  5. I always mute my phone.

    ruЯ всегда ставлю телефон на беззвучный режим.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
person unable to speak:
Русский
By meaning 1
person unable to speak:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person unable to speak:

Origin

From Middle English muet, from Anglo-Norman muet, moet, Middle French muet, from mu (“dumb

From Middle English muet, from Anglo-Norman muet, moet, Middle French muet, from mu (“dumb, mute”) + -et, remodelled after Latin mūtus.

From Middle French muetir, probably a shortened form of esmeutir, ultimately from Proto-Germanic.

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Forms

plural: mutes
Singularmute
Pluralmutes

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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