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Loud
Definitions
- 1 Of great intensity.
"Turn that music down; it's too loud."
- 2 Noisy. usually
"a loud party that went on all night"
- 3 Not subtle or reserved, brash. usually
"Some of the loudest blubberers are developers who, having made enormous profits as a result of local, state, and federal subsidies, complain that government doesn't do enough for them."
- 4 Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy. usually
"a loud style of dress; loud colors"
- 5 High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality. slang
- 1 characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity wordnet
- 2 (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) indicating that said piece or segment should be played loudly wordnet
- 3 tastelessly showy wordnet
- 1 Loudly.
"Who knocks so loud at door?"
- 1 with relatively high volume wordnet
- 1 A surname. countable
- 2 A surname.; Clipping of McLoud: A surname from Scottish Gaelic. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
- 3 A surname.; Clipping of McLoud: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.; Alternative form of McLeod, McLouth. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
- 4 A placename; Ellipsis of River Loud. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
- 5 A placename; Ellipsis of Loud Township. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
- 1 A loud sound or part of a sound. colloquial, countable, uncountable
"The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]"
- 2 High-quality marijuana. slang, uncountable
Etymology
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”).
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”).
From Middle English loude, from Old English hlūde (“loudly”), from Proto-Germanic *hlūda, *hlūdô (“loudly”), related to Etymology 1.
As an English surname, * from the adjective loud, * from the place name Lyde, * and a spelling variant of Louth in Lincolnshire, itself related to the adjective, * and finally variants of the Irish surnames McLeod, McLouth.
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