universally en · ADV
Pronunciation
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- /ˌjunɪˈvɝsəli/ (General-American)
- /ˌjuːnɪˈvɜːsəli/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From Middle English universally; equivalent to universal + -ly.
Meanings
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In a universal manner.
My experience of the people was that they were universally polite, civil, and clean, and during the whole time I spent in the country, I only saw one drunken man.
1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 12:If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
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By everyone or by the vast majority of people.
Each written word when spoken is mutually incomprehensible between a Mandarin speaker in Beijing and a Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong. If you think that’s odd, consider our number system: the symbol “9” is universally recognized but it’s pronounced “nine” in English and “devet” in Slovenian.
2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2022:It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 1:The movie was universally praised by its audience.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most universally | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more universally | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (10)
el καθολικά (in a universal manner) · ca universalment (in a universal manner) · fi yleisesti (in a universal manner) · fr universellement (in a universal manner) · it universalmente (in a universal manner) · fi yleismaailmallisesti (in a universal manner) · es universalmente (in a universal manner) · gl universalmente (in a universal manner) · pt universalmente (in a universal manner) · fi universaalisti (in a universal manner)