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famously en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English famous Middle English -ly English -ly English famously From famous + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a celebrated manner.
  2. Indicates that the act, state, or occurrence described by the sentence is famous. In such a manner as to become famous or produce something that would become famous.
    • She famously could not drive, but she introduced the breathalyser test to prosecute drunks who tried to. 2025 November 26, Howard Johnston, “Top 10: Influential ministers: Barbara Castle 1965-68”, in RAIL, number 1049, page 61:
    • But even as religion was on the rise, the word "God" declined dramatically over the course of the eighteenth century. The word is famously absent from the Constitution, but it was also relatively absent from the printed texts of the decade in which the Constitution was drafted and adopted, and more broadly from the revolutionary period overall. 2009, Eric Slauter, The State as a Work of Art, Chicago, →ISBN, page 247:
    • Just as Hillary Rodham Clinton famously put "18 million cracks in the glass ceiling" for women in high office, so there are a number of corporate executives who are doing the same for the lavender ceiling faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees. It's just a matter of time before they are promoted to the top job. 2014 May 26, Selisse Berry, “Letter: Gay Chief Executives”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022:
    • President Roosevelt famously said "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." 2007, Ian Harrison, Take Me to Your Leader, DK, →ISBN, page 152:
  3. (informal) Really well, having great rapport.
    • The new roommates got on famously.

Forms

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most famously Degree=Sup lexicographic
more famously Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

notably (indicates that the sentence describes something famous) · splendidly (with great rapport) · well (with great rapport) · notoriously (indicates that the sentence describes something famous) · swimmingly (with great rapport)

Translations (1)

es famosamente (Translations)