loud

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
/ˈlaʊ̯d/    /ˈlaʊ̯d/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A loud sound or part of a sound. colloquial,countable,uncountable
    — The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]
  2. High-quality marijuana. slang,uncountable
形容词 adj.
  1. Of great intensity.
    — Turn that music down; it's too loud.
  2. Noisy. usually
    — a loud party that went on all night
  3. Not subtle or reserved, brash. usually
    — Some of the loudest blubberers are developers who, having made enormous profits as a result of local, state, and federal subsidies, complain that government doesn't do enough for them.
  4. Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy. usually
    — a loud style of dress; loud colors
  5. High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality. slang
副词 adv.
  1. Loudly.
    — Who knocks so loud at door?

词形变化

louder comparative loudest superlative lowd alternative,obsolete louds plural lowd alternative,obsolete louder comparative loudest superlative lowd alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
From 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.
Cognates
Akin to Scots loud, lowd (“loud”), Swedish ljud, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk lyd, Faroese ljóð, Icelandic hljóð, West Frisian lûd (“loud”), Dutch luid (“loud”), Low German lud (“loud”), German laut (“loud”), Irish clú (“repute”), Welsh clywed (“heard”), clod (“praise”), Latin laudare (“praise”), Tocharian A/B klots/klautso 'ear', klyostär 'heard', Ancient Greek κλυτός (klutós, “famous”), Albanian quaj (“to name, call”), shquar (“famous, notorious”), Old Armenian լու (lu, “the act of hearing”), Old Church Slavonic слава (slava, “glory”), слово (slovo, “word”), Sanskrit श्रव (śráva, “glory”).
词源 2
From Middle English loude, from Old English hlūde (“loudly”), from Proto-Germanic *hlūda, *hlūdô (“loudly”), related to Etymology 1.
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