allowed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈlaʊd/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aʊd
• Homophone: aloud
• Hyphenation: al‧lowed

Verb

allowed

1. simple past tense and past participle of allow

Adjective

allowed (comparative more allowed, superlative most allowed)

1. Permitted, authorized. [from 16th c.]
2. (now rare) Allotted. [from 15th c.]
3. (now rare) Acknowledged; admitted to be true. [from 15th c.]
   • 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: […] Peter Edes for Thomas and Andrews, […], published 1792, →OCLC:

     With respect to the culture of the heart, it is unanimously allowed that sex is out of the question […]

Antonyms

• forbidden
• prohibited

Translations

permitted, authorized

• Arabic: مَسْمُوح‎ (ar) (masmūḥ)
• Dutch: toegestaan (nl)
• French: permis (fr)
• German: erlaubt (de)
• Hungarian: megengedett (hu)
• Italian: permesso (it)
• Latin: situs (la)
• Polish: dozwolony (pl)
• Russian: дозво́ленный (ru) (dozvólennyj)
• Spanish: permitido (es)
• Swedish: tillåten (sv)
• Ukrainian: дозво́лений (dozvólenyj)