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famously
adv 3
Collocations
5ADJ.
absent, bad, covered, known, noted, rich, stated, trying
VERB + FAMOUSLY
ages, fire, get, got
FAMOUSLY + NOUN
communism, stutterer, walls
PREP.
along, from, on
ADV.
once, only
Definitions
adv
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.
President Roosevelt famously said "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
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.
3
Really well, having great rapport.
The new roommates got on famously.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adverb — extremely well
- excellently
- magnificently
- splendidly
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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President Roosevelt famously said "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
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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 abse
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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 cei
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What part of Betty Grable's anatomy was famously insured for $1,000,000?
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We got along famously.
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As F. Scott Fitzgerald famously noted, the rich are different from you and me.
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