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out loud

out loud adverb: using the voice; not silently; aloud.

Adverb

out loud (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Using the voice; not silently; aloud.
    • After calling their names out (loud), the teacher asked her students to take turns reading the story out loud to the rest of the class.
    • I received countless private phone calls from very senior railwaymen and women, all with the same message: "Please carry on what you're doing. You are saying what we are all thinking but dare not say. You have our support, but we just can't voice it out loud."2023 September 20, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: And it's goodbye from me...”, in RAIL, page 4

Forms of out loud

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Questions about out loud

What does out loud mean?
Out loud means using the voice; not silently; aloud.
What part of speech is out loud?
Out loud is an adverb.

Words near out loud in the dictionary

  1. out hiking
  2. Out Islands
  3. out lap
  4. out laps
  5. out like a light
  6. out loud
  7. out of
  8. out of a job
  9. out of a nightmare
  10. out of action
  11. Out of Africa

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