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発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈlaʊ̯d/
• (Southern 米国発音, Midland 米国発音, Mid-Atlantic 米国発音, New York City, General Australian, New Zealand, /aʊ̯/-fronting) IPA: /ˈlæʊ̯d/
• (Pittsburgh, General South African, /aʊ̯/-monopthongization) IPA: /ˈlaːd/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˈlʌʉ̯d/
• (Ireland)
  • (Standard Irish, Dublin) IPA: /ˈlɛ̈ʊ̯d/
  • (Cork, Munster) IPA: /ˈlɐʊ̯d/
  • (Northern Ireland) IPA: /ˈlɐʏ̯d/
• 韻: -aʊd
• ハイフネーション: loud

語源 1

From 中期英語 loude, loud, lud, from 古期英語 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.

形容詞

loud (comparative louder, superlative loudest)

1. (of a sound) Of great intensity.

   Turn that music down; it's too loud.

   What was that? It sounded like a really loud sneeze.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.

2. (of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy.

   a loud party that went on all night

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs vii:11:

     She is loud and stubborn.

3. (of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash.
   • 1988 December 9, Ben Joravsky, “Property-tax assessments rise; north siders are revolting”, in Chicago Reader‎, archived from the original on 24 October 2020:

     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. (of clothing, decorations, etc.) Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.

   a loud style of dress;  loud colors

   • 2006, Janis Mink, Joan Miró, →ISBN, page 22:

     In comparison with the loud Portrait of E.C. Ricart (ill. p. 13) two years earlier, Miró has captured a soft, hushed atmosphere here.

5. (of marijuana, slang) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality.

同意語

• (of clothing, etc): garish, gaudy

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “sound”): quiet, silent, soft
• (antonym(s) of “person”): quiet

派生語

名詞

loud (countable and uncountable, plural louds)

1. (colloquial) A loud sound or part of a sound.
   • 2012, Sam McGuire, Paul Lee, The Video Editor's Guide to Soundtrack Pro, page 103:

     The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]

2. (slang, uncountable) High-quality marijuana.

参考

語源 2

From 中期英語 loude, from 古期英語 hlūde (“loudly”), from Proto-Germanic *hlūda, *hlūdô (“loudly”), related to Etymology 1.

副詞

loud (comparative louder, superlative loudest)

1. Loudly.
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

     Who knocks so loud at door?

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 14, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII, pages 71-72:

     Unluckily that worthy Officer having, in a literal Sense, taken his Fill of Liquor, had been some Time retired to his Bolster, where he was snoaring so loud, that it was not easy to convey a Noise in at his Ears capable of drowning that which issued from his Nostrils.

   • 2014 April 25, Paul Krugman, “The Piketty Panic”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Money still talks — indeed, thanks in part to the Roberts court, it talks louder than ever. Still, ideas matter too, shaping both how we talk about society and, eventually, what we do.

派生語

アナグラム

• Ludo, ludo, ludo-, ould

別の表記

• loude, lowd, lowde, lud

発音

• IPA: /luːd/

形容詞

loud (plural and weak singular loude, comparative loudere)

1. Loud, noisy; producing much sound.
2. (rare) Audible; detectable by hearing.
3. (rare) Obvious; easily detectable or discernible.

関連する語

• loude

派生した語

• English: loud
• Scots: loud, lood

参照

• “lǒud, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 1 October 2018.

語源 2

副詞

loud

1. alternative form of loude (“loudly”)