Louden

name, verb

name, verb ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To become louder.

    "The shouts of the bookies were now loudening outside in the sunlight, and when I'd slipped on my raincoat we went out to see what we could of the Light Weight Race."

  2. 2
    cause to become loud wordnet
  3. 3
    become louder wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in Adams County, Ohio, United States. countable, uncountable

Example

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"Billings had backheeled Louden Powers just as he got to the door, and now was kneeling on the chest of the discomfited scoundrel."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From loud + -en.

Etymology 2

Scottish habitational surname, from the parish of Loudoun, in East Ayrshire.

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