ALOUD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aloud mean? 

• ALOUD (adverb)
  The adverb ALOUD has 2 senses:

1. using the voice; not silently

2. with relatively high volume

  Familiarity information: ALOUD used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALOUD (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Using the voice; not silently

Synonyms:

aloud; out loud

Context example:

he laughed out loud

Sense 2

Meaning:

With relatively high volume

Synonyms:

aloud; loud; loudly

Context example:

cried aloud for help

 Context examples 

I confess that a madness seized me, that I shrieked aloud as the women had shrieked, and beat the water with my numb hands.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The Professor closed the door again, and, after looking at the direction, opened it and read aloud.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He did not know that he growled, but he growled aloud with a terrible ferocity.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

"Give me time," he said aloud.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“It is from Miss Bingley,” said Jane, and then read it aloud.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“You would do something, whatever you were, my dear Traddles,” thought I, “that would be pleasant and amiable. And by the way,” I said aloud, “I suppose you never draw any skeletons now?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"I might have knowed it," Bill chided himself aloud as he replaced the gun.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Mr. Trelawney Hope dropped his head on his chest and groaned aloud.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Perhaps you would be good enough to read it aloud.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)