allowed

• IPA^(key): /əˈlaʊd/

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

allowed

1. simple past and past participle of allow

allowed (comparative more allowed, superlative most allowed)

1. Permitted, authorized. [from 16th c.]
2. (now rare) Allotted. [from 15th c.]
3. (now rare) 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, […], published 1792, →OCLC:

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

• banned
• forbidden
• prohibited