Definition of "aloud" []

• With use of the voice; orally: Read this passage aloud. (adverb)
• In a loud tone; loudly: crying aloud for help. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "While it is the sheer physicality of Mr. Hurt's performance that impresses most—he totters about the stage with the squeaky-shoed grace of the music-hall clowns that Beckett loved—you will be no less stunned by the sound of his creaky, rusty voice, which suggests a hermit who never has occasion to speak a word aloud for months at a time."
• "Then he would say his name aloud and remind her a man did not choose his name."
• "My mother had never even said the word aloud to me, always just calling it “the facility.”"