aloud
English
Etymology
From Middle English aloud, a loude (“aloud”), equivalent to a- + loud or a- + loude (“sound”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
aloud (not comparable)
- With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.
- Try speaking aloud rather than whispering.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
- 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.
- Audibly, as opposed to silent.
- speaking aloud rather than thinking thoughts privately
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest[1]:
- 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.
Translations
loudly
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audibly, not silent
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Adjective
aloud (not comparable)
- Spoken out loud.
- 2004, James Anderson, The Art of God, page 176:
- When you are meditating with sound, it can be aloud or it can be silent
Anagrams
Dutch
Alternative forms
- aaloud (obsolete)
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
aloud (not comparable)
- ancient, time-honoured, from time immemorial
- 2007, Paul Rutten, Digitalisering en dynamiek. Over de consequenties van de digitale revolutie voor de media-industrie, in het bijzonder de uitgeverij. Rede uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van hoogleraar Digitale Mediastudies aan de Universiteit Leiden op vrijdag 29 september 2006, Amsterdam University Press, page 10.
- De aloude en zeer persistente misvatting dat nieuwe media bestaande media overbodig maken, heeft menig investeerder aan het eind van de vorige en het begin van deze eeuw met aanzienlijke verliezen moeten bekopen.
- The time-honoured and very persistent misconception that new media make existing media obsolete, has incurred considerable losses to many an investor at the end of the previous century and at the beginning of this century.
- 2007, Paul Rutten, Digitalisering en dynamiek. Over de consequenties van de digitale revolutie voor de media-industrie, in het bijzonder de uitgeverij. Rede uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van hoogleraar Digitale Mediastudies aan de Universiteit Leiden op vrijdag 29 september 2006, Amsterdam University Press, page 10.
Inflection
Declension of aloud | ||||
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uninflected | aloud | |||
inflected | aloude | |||
comparative | — | |||
positive | ||||
predicative/adverbial | aloud | |||
indefinite | m./f. sing. | aloude | ||
n. sing. | aloud | |||
plural | aloude | |||
definite | aloude | |||
partitive | alouds |
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