out loud

English

Alternative forms

• out-loud
• outloud (rare)

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Audio (Mid-Atlantic US):

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Adverb

out loud (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Using the voice; not silently; aloud.

   The teacher asked her students to take turns reading the story out loud to the rest of the class.

   • 2023 September 20, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: And it's goodbye from me...”, in RAIL, page 4:

     I received countless private phone calls from very senior railwaymen and women, all with the same message: "Please carry on what you're doing. You are saying what we are all thinking but dare not say. You have our support, but we just can't voice it out loud."

Translations

aloud, audibly, not silently

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (to read aloud) 朗讀／朗读 (zh) (lǎngdú), (to think aloud) 自言自語／自言自语 (zh) (zìyánzìyǔ), (with a loud voice) 大聲地／大声地 (zh) (dàshēng de)

• Czech: nahlas (cs)
• Danish: højt
• Dutch: hardop (nl), luidop (nl), (to read aloud) voorlezen (nl)
• Finnish: ääneen (fi)
• French: à voix haute (fr), à haute voix (fr)
• Georgian: ხმამაღლა (xmamaɣla)
• German: laut (de)
• Greek: μεγαλόφωνα (el) (megalófona), δυνατά (el) (dynatá)
• Hebrew: בקול רם (bekol ram)
• Hungarian: fennhangon (hu), hangosan (hu)
• Icelandic: upphátt
• Irish: os ard
• Italian: a voce
• Japanese: 声に出して (こえをだして, koe ni dashite)
• Latin: magna voce, plena voce
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: høyt (no)

  Nynorsk: høgt

• Occitan: a nauta votz
• Old English: hlūde
• Plautdietsch: oppludes
• Polish: na głos (pl)
• Portuguese: em voz alta (pt)
• Romanian: tare (ro), cu voce tare
• Russian: вслух (ru) (vslux)
• Spanish: en voz alta
• Swedish: högt (sv)
• Ukrainian: вго́лос (uk) (vhólos), уго́лос (uhólos)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Armenian: ^{(please verify)} բարձրաձայն (hy) (barjrajayn)
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} гла́сно (bg) (glásno)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (to read aloud) ^{(please verify)} 朗讀／朗读 (zh) (lǎngdú), (to think aloud) ^{(please verify)} 自言自語／自言自语 (zh) (zìyánzìyǔ)

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} laŭte
• French: ^{(please verify)} à haute voix (fr)
• German: ^{(please verify)} laut (de), (see: to "read aloud") ^{(please verify)} vorlesen (de) (verb)
• Greek: ^{(please verify)} δυνατά (el) (dynatá)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 큰 소리로 (keun soriro)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} cu voce tare
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} de viva voz
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} högt (sv)
• Tocharian B: ^{(please verify)} eṅkaucar
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} вго́лос (uk) (vhólos)