"indoor voice" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: indoor voices [plural], indoors voice [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} indoor voice (plural indoor voices)
  1. A calm, quiet voice, used to avoid disturbing others. Categories (topical): Talking Synonyms: inside voice
    Sense id: en-indoor_voice-en-noun-~32ROHFL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "2011, Lisa Unger, Darkness, My Old Friend, Broadway, published 2011, →ISBN, page 57:",
          "text": "The toddler at the far table issued a little shriek of delight over something. \"Indoor voice,\" his mother whispered.",
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          "ref": "2014, Bobbi Govanus, How To Pilot When We Were Raised to BE Stewardesses: Reinventing Your Life with Passion and Purpose, Lulu.com, published 2014, →ISBN, page 18:",
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          "ref": "2014, Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2014, →ISBN, page 242:",
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