• IPA^(key):/əˈlaʊd/

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• Rhymes:-aʊd
• Homophone:aloud
• Hyphenation:al‧lowed

allowed

1. simplepast andpastparticiple ofallow

allowed (comparativemoreallowed,superlativemostallowed)

1. Permitted,authorized.[from 16th c.]
2. (nowrare)Allotted.[from 15th c.]
3. (nowrare)Acknowledged; admitted to be true.[from 15th c.]
   • 1791 (date written),Mary Wollstonecraft,A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London:[…]J[oseph] Johnson, […], published1792,→OCLC:

     With respect to the culture of the heart, it is unanimouslyallowed that sex is out of the question[…]

• banned
• forbidden
• prohibited