Allude Definition

ə-lo͝od
alluded, alludes, alluding
verb
alluded, alludes, alluding
To make an indirect reference.
The candidate alluded to the recent war by saying, “We've all made sacrifices.”
American Heritage
To refer in a casual or indirect way (to)
Webster's New World
The definition of allude is to drop a hint about something, but not go into details or specifics.
An example of allude is when a person mentions he needs to make a doctor appointment, but don’t say why he needs to.
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(intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.

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Origin of Allude

  • Latin allūdere to play with ad- ad- lūdere to play (from lūdus game leid- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French alluder, from Latin alludere (“to play with or allude”), from ad + ludere (“to play”).

    From Wiktionary

Allude Sentence Examples

  • We can only allude to some of these points.

  • We can only allude to a few of the measures which received his efficient support, e.g.

  • Newton's desire to have no hand in writing the preface seems. to have proceeded from a knowledge that Cotes was proposing to allude to the dispute about the invention of fluxions.

  • We need not here do more than allude to the centralization of Jewish ideas and aspirations in Jerusalem, especially in the holy rock on which tradition (and probably textual corruption) have placed the scene of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac, and over which the Most Holy Place of the Temple stood.

  • It remains only to allude to the European school, if school it can be called, founded by Kokan and Denkichi, two contemporaries of OkyO.

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