aloud
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English aloud, a loude, equivalent to a- + loud or a- + loude.
Pronunciation- IPA: /əˈlaʊd/
aloud (not comparable)
- 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.
- 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.
- French: à voix haute, à haute voix, fort
- German: laut
- Italian: a voce alta, ad alta voce
- Portuguese: em voz alta
- Russian: гро́мко
- Spanish: en voz alta, públicamente
aloud (not comparable)
- Spoken out loud.
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