Meanings
- not comparableWith a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.
Try speaking aloud rather than whispering.
1 more example
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.
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 - not comparableAudibly, as opposed to silently/quietly.
speaking aloud rather than thinking thoughts privately
1 more example
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.
1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC
- not comparableSpoken out loud.
When you are meditating with sound, it can be aloud or it can be silent
2004, James Anderson, The Art of God, page 176
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbusing the voice; not silently
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishaloud
- Englishaloud
From Middle English aloud, a loude (“aloud”), equivalent to a- + loud or a- + loude (“sound”).
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian гла́сно
- гла́сно (glásno)loudly
Chinese Mandarin 大聲地 /大声地
- 大聲地 /大声地 (dàshēng de)loudly
Esperanto laŭte
- laŭteloudly
Finnish äänekkäästi, ääneen
- äänekkäästiloudly
- ääneenloudly
French à voix haute, à haute voix
- à voix hauteloudly
- à haute voixloudly
- fortloudly
German laut
- lautloudly
Greek μεγαλοφώνως, φωναχτά
- μεγαλοφώνως (megalofónos)loudly
- φωναχτά (fonachtá)loudly
Italian a voce alta, ad alta voce
- a voce altaloudly
- ad alta voceloudly
Japanese 大声で
- 大声で (ōgoe de)loudly
Korean 큰 소리로, 크게
- 큰 소리로 (keun soriro)loudly
- 크게 (keuge)loudly
Māori kiriwaha
- kiriwahaloudly
Portuguese em voz alta
- em voz altaloudly
Russian гро́мко
- гро́мко (grómko)loudly
Spanish en voz alta, públicamente
- en voz altaloudly
- públicamenteloudly
- en altoloudly
- de viva vozloudly
Swedish ljudligt, högljutt
- ljudligtloudly
- högljuttloudly
Turkish yüksek sesle
- yüksek sesleloudly
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with aloud
Sounds the same
Anagrams
Cite this entry
aloud. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aloud
“aloud.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aloud. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “aloud,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aloud.
Source: aloud on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.