allowed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈlaʊd/

• Audio (US):

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

Verb

allowed

1. simple past 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, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:

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

Antonyms

• banned
• forbidden
• prohibited

Derived terms

• allowedly
• nonallowed
• superallowed
• unallowed

Translations

permitted, authorized

• Arabic: مَسْمُوح (masmūḥ)
• Catalan: permet (ca)
• Dutch: toegestaan (nl)
• French: permis (fr)
• Galician: permitido
• German: erlaubt (de)
• Greek: επιτρεπτός (el) m (epitreptós)
• Hindi: जायज़ (jāyaz)
• Hungarian: megengedett (hu)
• Italian: permesso (it)
• Japanese: 許可された (ja) (kyoka sareta), 可 (ja) (ka) (suffix)
• Latin: situs (la)
• Occitan: permés (oc)
• Polish: dozwolony (pl)
• Portuguese: autorizado (pt)
• Romanian: permis (ro)
• Russian: дозво́ленный (ru) (dozvólennyj), разрешённо class adverb (razrešónno), разрешённый (ru) (razrešónnyj)
• Spanish: permitido (es)
• Swedish: tillåten (sv)
• Ukrainian: дозво́лений (dozvólenyj)
• Venetan: lèçito