aloud

English

Etymology

From Middle English aloud, a loude (“aloud”), equivalent to a- +‎ loud or a- +‎ loude (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈlaʊd/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aʊd
• Homophone: allowed
• Hyphenation: aloud

Adverb

aloud (not comparable)

1. With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.

   Try speaking aloud rather than whispering.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     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.

2. Audibly, as opposed to silently/quietly.

   speaking aloud rather than thinking thoughts privately

   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     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.

Derived terms

• read-aloud
• talk-aloud protocol
• talk aloud protocol
• think aloud

 

Translations

loudly

• Bulgarian: гла́сно (bg) (glásno)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大聲地 / 大声地 (zh) (dàshēng de)

• Esperanto: laŭte
• Finnish: äänekkäästi (fi)
• French: à voix haute (fr), à haute voix (fr), fort (fr)
• German: laut (de)
• Greek: μεγαλοφώνως (el) (megalofónos), φωναχτά (el) (fonachtá)
• Italian: a voce alta, ad alta voce
• Japanese: 大声で (ja) (おおごえで, ōgoe de)
• Korean: 큰 소리로 (keun soriro), 크게 (ko) (keuge)
• Maori: kiriwaha
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: виян (vijan)

• Portuguese: em voz alta (pt)
• Russian: гро́мко (ru) (grómko)
• Spanish: en voz alta, públicamente (es), en alto
• Swedish: ljudligt (sv), högljutt (sv)

audibly, not silent — see out loud

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• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} బిగ్గరగా (biggaragā), ^{(please verify)} ఎలుగెత్తి (elugetti)

Adjective

aloud (not comparable)

1. 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

• doula, doúla

Dutch

Alternative forms

• aaloud (obsolete)

Etymology

Compound of al +‎ oud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑl.ɑu̯t/, /ɑlˈɑu̯t/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: al‧oud

Adjective

aloud (not comparable)

1. 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.

Declension

Declension of aloud
uninflected	aloud
inflected	aloude
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		aloud
indefinite	m./f. sing.	aloude
	n. sing.	aloud
	plural	aloude
definite		aloude
partitive		alouds

Derived terms

• aloudheid