"out loud" meaning in English

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Adverb

Audio: En-au-out loud.ogg [Australia], en-us-out loud.ogg [Mid-Atlantic]
Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} out loud (not comparable)
  1. (idiomatic) Using the voice; not silently; aloud. Tags: idiomatic, not-comparable Categories (topical): Talking Synonyms: out-loud, outloud [rare] Translations (aloud, audibly, not silently): 朗讀 (english: to read aloud) (Chinese Mandarin), 朗读 (lǎngdú) (Chinese Mandarin), 自言自語 (english: to think aloud) (Chinese Mandarin), 自言自语 (zìyánzìyǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 大聲地 (note: with a loud voice) (Chinese Mandarin), 大声地 (dàshēng de) (Chinese Mandarin), nahlas (Czech), højt (Danish), hardop (Dutch), luidop (Dutch), voorlezen (english: to read aloud) (Dutch), ääneen (Finnish), à voix haute (French), à haute voix (French), ხმამაღლა (xmamaɣla) (Georgian), laut (German), μεγαλόφωνα (megalófona) (Greek), δυνατά (dynatá) (Greek), בקול רם (bekol ram) (Hebrew), fennhangon (Hungarian), hangosan (Hungarian), upphátt (Icelandic), os ard (Irish), a voce (Italian), 声に出して (koe ni dashite) (alt: こえをだして) (Japanese), magna voce (Latin), plena voce (Latin), høyt (Norwegian Bokmål), høgt (Norwegian Nynorsk), a nauta votz (Occitan), hlūde (Old English), oppludes (Plautdietsch), na głos (Polish), em voz alta (Portuguese), tare (Romanian), cu voce tare (Romanian), вслух (vslux) (Russian), en voz alta (Spanish), högt (Swedish), вго́лос (vhólos) (Ukrainian), уго́лос (uhólos) (Ukrainian)

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    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "aloud, audibly, not silently",
      "word": "högt"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vhólos",
      "sense": "aloud, audibly, not silently",
      "word": "вго́лос"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "uhólos",
      "sense": "aloud, audibly, not silently",
      "word": "уго́лос"
    }
  ],
  "word": "out loud"
}

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