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aloud

/əˈlaʊd/

aloud adverb: with a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.

Adverb

aloud (not comparable)

  1. With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.
    • Try speaking aloud rather than whispering.
    • Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
  2. Audibly, as opposed to silently/quietly.
    • speaking aloud rather than thinking thoughts privately
    • He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

Adjective

aloud (not comparable)

  1. Spoken out loud.
    • When you are meditating with sound, it can be aloud or it can be silent2004, James Anderson, The Art of God, page 176

aloud meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

aloud in Tamil

உரக்க, நன்கு கேட்கும்படி

aloud in Urdu

aloud
بآواز baāvāz

aloud in Bengali

উচ্চস্বরে

aloud in Malayalam

ഉച്ചത്തിൽ
More languagesFewer languages
aloud in Kannada
ಗಟ್ಟಿಯಾಗಿ
aloud in Sanskrit
बृहत् bṛhát

Examples of aloud in a sentence

  • She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.
  • Herewith, a brief primer in speaking basic North Carolinaese, meant to be read aloud for optimal effect.
  • She said aloud the name of every town we passed on the highway: Huangshi, Meichuan, Huangmei.

All 40 example sentences with aloud

Origin of aloud

From Middle English aloud, a loude (“aloud”), equivalent to a- + loud or a- + loude (“sound”).

Words formed from aloud

Phrases with aloud

Words that rhyme with aloud

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Questions about aloud

What does aloud mean?
Aloud means with a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.
What is aloud in Tamil?
Aloud in Tamil is உரக்க, நன்கு கேட்கும்படி. See Aloud meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is aloud?
Aloud can be an adverb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce aloud?
Aloud is pronounced /əˈlaʊd/.

Words near aloud in the dictionary

  1. alouate
  2. alouates
  3. alouatte
  4. alouattes
  5. alouattine
  6. aloud
  7. Alouette
  8. aloun-aloun
  9. alovudine
  10. alow
  11. aloxiprin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aloud (page history and authors); aloud (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بآواز (Urdu) (page history and authors); aloud (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aloud (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aloud (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); बृहत् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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