Pronunciation IPA(key): /əˈlaʊd/ Audio (US):(file) Rhymes: -aʊd Homophone: aloud Hyphenation: al‧lowed Verb allowed simple past and past participle of allow Adjective allowed (comparative more allowed, superlative most allowed) Permitted, authorized. [from 16th c.] (now rare) Allotted. [from 15th c.] (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 […] Antonyms banned forbidden prohibited Derived terms allowedlynonallowedsuperallowedunallowed Translations permitted, authorized Arabic: مَسْمُوح (masmūḥ) Catalan: permet (ca) Dutch: toegestaan (nl) French: permis (fr) Galician: permitido German: erlaubt (de) Hindi: जायज़ (jāyaz) Hungarian: megengedett (hu) Italian: permesso (it) Japanese: 許可された (ja) (kyoka sareta), 可 (ja) (ka) (suffix) Latin: situs (la) Occitan: permés (oc) Polish: dozwolony (pl) Portuguese: autorizado (pt) Romanian: permis (ro) Russian: дозво́ленный (ru) (dozvólennyj), разрешённо class adverb (razrešónno), разрешённый (ru) (razrešónnyj) Spanish: permitido (es) Swedish: tillåten (sv) Ukrainian: дозво́лений (dozvólenyj) Venetian: lèçito