Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make an indirect reference.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To play with or make game of.
- To compare.
- To make an allusion; refer casually or indirectly: with to (formerly also
unto ). - To pun; have a punning reference.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To compare allusively; to refer (something) as applicable.
- intransitive verb To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by
to .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To refer to something
indirectly or bysuggestion
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a more or less disguised reference to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Could the title allude, Raveh wonders, to an ink fountain, the means by which Izzy creates her own slice of immortality, the completion of which she leaves to Tom?
A Saturday Afternoon Double Feature Abigail Nussbaum 2006
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Could the title allude, Raveh wonders, to an ink fountain, the means by which Izzy creates her own slice of immortality, the completion of which she leaves to Tom?
Archive 2006-10-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2006
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Documented proof to which you allude is not being produced, therefore your words have little meaning.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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In connexion with politeness, I would again allude to the great importance of habits of observation.
The Mother's Book 1831
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The power of that species of poetry to which we allude is now greatly increased also, at least in extent of operation, by the admission among the number of judges, of so great a mass of half-educated persons, to whom the story is every thing, and the poetry almost nothing.
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Sort of off-topic, but I believe the word you're looking for in the last sentence of this piece is "allude" -- ninjas elude, writers allude.
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Her title of Princesse du Sang Royal de France was suppressed (February 7th, 1737) by an arret of the parliament of Paris.] 79 The singular anecdote to which I allude is related in the Recueil des Pieces interessantes et peu connues, (Maestricht, 1786, in 4 vols. 12mo.;) and the unknown editor quotes his author, who had received it from Helene de Courtenay, marquise de Beaufremont.]
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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I did kind of allude to the whole Warboy thing in the title discussion?
Review: Warchild by Karin Lowachee Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2009
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Most of the comments i''ve read thus far are perpetuating the very thing they "allude" to despising and yet it is The continued self defeating attitudes that this is where it is.
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Most of the comments i''ve read thus far are perpetuating the very thing they "allude" to despising and yet it is The continued self defeating attitudes that this is where it is.
myth17 commented on the word allude
Dont confuse between allude and elude. ;)
August 11, 2012
dhruvsinghal commented on the word allude
The teacher scolded the students making an allusion to their poor performance in the examinations.
April 11, 2014