loud

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English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: loud, IPA(key): /laʊd/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aʊd

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English loude, loud, lud, from Old English hlūd (“loud, noisy, sounding, sonorous”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlūd, from Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz, *hlūþaz (“heard”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewtos (“heard, famous”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”). More at listen.

Cognates
Akin to Scots loud, lowd (“loud”), Swedish ljud, West Frisian lûd (“loud”), Dutch luid (“loud”), Low German lud (“loud”), German laut (“loud”), Irish clú (“repute”), Welsh clywed (“heard”), clod (“praise”), Latin laudare (“praise”), Tocharian A/B klots/klautso 'ear', klyostär 'heard', Ancient Greek κλυτός (klutós, “famous”), Albanian quaj (“to name, call”), shquar (“famous, notorious”), Old Armenian լու (lu, “the act of hearing”), Old Church Slavonic слава (slava, “glory”), слово (slovo, “word”), Sanskrit श्रव (śráva, “glory”).

Adjective[edit]

loud (comparative louder, superlative loudest)

  1. (of a sound) Of great intensity.
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
      Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
    Turn that music down; it's too loud.
    What was that? It sounded like a really loud sneeze.
  2. (of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy.
    a loud party that went on all night
  3. (of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash.
  4. (of clothing, decorations, etc.) Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
    a loud style of dress;  loud colors
    • 2006, Janis Mink, Joan Miró, →ISBN, page 22:
      In comparison with the loud Portrait of E.C. Ricart (ill. p. 13) two years earlier, Miró has captured a soft, hushed atmosphere here.
  5. (of marijuana, slang) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality.
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Noun[edit]

loud (countable and uncountable, plural louds)

  1. (colloquial) A loud sound or part of a sound.
    • 2012, Sam McGuire; Paul Lee, The Video Editor's Guide to Soundtrack Pro, page 103:
      The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]
  2. (slang, uncountable) High-quality marijuana.
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English loude, from Old English hlūde (“loudly”), from Proto-Germanic *hlūda, *hlūdô (“loudly”), related to Etymology 1.

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loud (comparative louder, superlative loudest)

  1. Loudly.
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Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Old English hlūd, from Proto-West Germanic *hlūd, from Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlutós.

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loud (plural and weak singular loude, comparative loudere)

  1. Loud, noisy; producing much sound.
  2. (rare) Audible; detectable by hearing.
  3. (rare) Obvious; easily detectable or discernible.
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  • English: loud
  • Scots: loud, lood
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Etymology 2[edit]

Adverb[edit]

loud

  1. Alternative form of loude (“loudly”)
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