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allowed

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //əˈlaʊd//

Permitted, authorized.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of allowsimple past and past participle of allow

adjective

  1. 1

    Permitted, authorized.

    Can she come? -She'll be allowed to go later.

    The second level of reading we will call Inspectional Reading. It is characterized by its special emphasis on time. When reading at this level, the student is allowed a set time to complete an assigned amount of reading. He might be allowed fifteen minutes to read this book, for instance—or even a book twice as long.

  2. 2

    archaicAllotted.

  3. 3

    archaicAcknowledged; admitted to be true.

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

Forms

comparative
more allowed
superlative
most allowed
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).