loud
A loud sound or part of a soundA loud sound or part of a sound.
Meaning
2 senses(colloquial, countable, uncountable)A loud sound or part of a sound.
(slang, uncountable)High-quality marijuana.
Examples
1028 sentencesI'm just thinking out loud here.
Я просто думаю вголос. — deniko
Tom read the poem out loud.
Том прочитав вірш уголос. — deniko
ruТом прочитал стихотворение вслух. — Balamax
Tom said I was too loud.
Том сказав, що я занадто галасливий. — deniko
ruТом сказал, что я слишком шумный. — marafon
You don't have to talk so loud.
Не треба так голосно говорити. — aandrusiak
ruНе нужно говорить так громко. — joulin
Tom didn't have to speak so loud.
Том не мусив говорити так гучно. — deniko
Origin
From Middle English loude, loud, lud, from Old English hlūd (“loud, noisy, sounding, sonorFrom Middle English loude, loud, lud, from Old English 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.
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Forms
plural: loudsWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- a loud voice
- talk so loud
- laughed out loud
- loud noise
- heard a loud
- as loud as
- loud voice
- a little louder
- snores louder than
- is too loud
- speak louder
- a loud noise
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.