alludes
Meaning of alludes
verb, 3rd person present
- suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at.
she had a way of alluding to Jean but never saying her name
late 15th century (in the sense ‘hint at, suggest’): from Latin allus-, alludere, from ad- ‘towards’ + ludere ‘to play’.
Information about alludes
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of alludes is: allude.
- Languages in which alludes is used:
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Hyphenation of alludes
al-ludes
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- alludes is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
alludes synonyms
Meaning put forward for consideration:
Meaning indicate the truth or existence of (something) by suggestion rather than explicit reference:
Meaning refer to (something) briefly and without going into detail:
Meaning refer to (a passage, book, or author) as evidence for or justification of an argument or statement, especially in a scholarly work:
Anagrams of alludes
Words that rhyme with alludes
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