Definition of Loud

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Definition of Loud

Loud

Having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as, a loud cry; loud thunder.

Clamorous; boisterous.

Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united effort.

Ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a loud style of dress; loud colors.

With loudness; loudly.

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Loud Quotations

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis de Sade

I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
Dane Cook

Actors die so loud.
Henry Miller

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
Gore Vidal

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
Malcolm Forbes

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times.
Ovid

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
Jose Marti

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.
Ritchie Blackmore

Loud Translations

loud in Afrikaans is hard
loud in Dutch is hard, luid
loud in German is laut
loud in Italian is secondo
loud in Portuguese is ruidosamente

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