loud
Meanings
- Of great intensity.
- Noisy.
- Not subtle or reserved, brash.
- Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
- High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality.
- A loud sound or part of a sound.
- High-quality marijuana.
- Loudly.
- A surname.
- Clipping of McLoud: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- Alternative form of McLeod, McLouth.
- A placename
- Ellipsis of River Loud.
- Ellipsis of Loud Township.
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Etymology
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, 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”).