aloud

adv
/əˈlaʊd/

Etymology

From Middle English aloud, a loude (“aloud”), equivalent to a- + loud or a- + loude (“sound”).

  1. inherited from aloud

Definitions

  1. With a loud voice, or great noise

    With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.

    • Try speaking aloud rather than whispering.
  2. Audibly, as opposed to silently/quietly.

    • speaking aloud rather than thinking thoughts privately
    • 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.
  3. Spoken out loud.

    • When you are meditating with sound, it can be aloud or it can be silent

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at aloud. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at aloud. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at aloud

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA