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Aloud
//əˈlaʊd// adj, adv
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Spoken out loud. not-comparable
"When you are meditating with sound, it can be aloud or it can be silent"
Adverb
- 1 With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly. not-comparable
"Try speaking aloud rather than whispering."
- 2 Audibly, as opposed to silently/quietly. not-comparable
"speaking aloud rather than thinking thoughts privately"
Adverb
- 1 using the voice; not silently wordnet
- 2 with relatively high volume wordnet
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English aloud, a loude (“aloud”), equivalent to a- + loud or a- + loude (“sound”).
Etymology 2
From Middle English aloud, a loude (“aloud”), equivalent to a- + loud or a- + loude (“sound”).
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