aloudadverb
uk/əˈlaʊd/us/əˈlaʊd/B1 in a voice loud enough to be heard:
He read her letter aloud to the rest of the family.
People are starting to wonder aloud (= question publicly) whether the economic reforms have gone too far.
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- It would be a useful exercise for you to say the speech aloud several times.
- Children love to have stories read aloud to them.
- "What did you say?" "Oh, nothing, I was just thinking aloud."
- The judge asked her to read the jury's verdict aloud.
- Everybody in the class had to read aloud an extract from the book.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Describing qualities of the human voice
- break
- breathy
- dulcet
- fruity
- gruff
- guttural
- honeyed
- lilting
- rough
- soft-spoken
- stentorian
- strangled
- strangulated
- throaty
- tone
- toned
- toneless
- vocal
- voice
- voiced
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