aloud

CEFRB1

/əˈlaʊd/

adverb

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speaking aloud rather than thinking thoughts privately
Try speaking aloud rather than whispering.
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.

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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
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
When you are meditating with sound, it can be aloud or it can be silent
2004, James Anderson, The Art of God, page 176

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