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indoor voice en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A calm, quiet voice, used to avoid disturbing others.
    • The toddler at the far table issued a little shriek of delight over something. "Indoor voice," his mother whispered. 2011, Lisa Unger, Darkness, My Old Friend, Broadway, published 2011, →ISBN, page 57:
    • She knew when I was on a business call that she had to be quiet and use her indoor voice. 2014, Bobbi Govanus, How To Pilot When We Were Raised to BE Stewardesses: Reinventing Your Life with Passion and Purpose, Lulu.com, published 2014, →ISBN, page 18:
    • She's easy to be with, provided you don't mind the constant chatter, the non-sequitur song cues, or her total lack of an indoor voice. 2014, Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2014, →ISBN, page 242:

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indoor voices Number=Plur lexicographic
indoors voice alternative lexicographic

Antonyms

outdoor voice

Synonyms

inside voice