From Middle English aloud, a loude, equivalent to a- + loud or a- + loude.

• IPA: /əˈlaʊd/

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.

• 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)

1. Spoken out loud.