aloudとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /əˈlaʊd/
• 韻: -aʊd
• Homophone: allowed
• ハイフネーション: aloud

副詞

aloud (not comparable)

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

   Try speaking aloud rather than whispering.

   • 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 222716698:

     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.

2. Audibly, as opposed to silently/quietly.

   speaking aloud rather than thinking thoughts privately

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎^[1]:

     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.

形容詞

aloud (not comparable)

1. Spoken out loud.
   • 2004, James Anderson, The Art of God, page 176:

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

アナグラム

• doula, doúla