Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb In a way or to an extent that is well known.
- adverb With the result of becoming famous.
- adverb Excellently; splendidly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- With renown or celebrity; notoriously.
- Remarkably well; admirably; capitally: as, he has succeeded famously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb this sense) In a
celebrated manner. - adverb Indicates that the act, state, or occurrence described by the sentence is famous.
- adverb Really well, having great
rapport
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a manner or to an extent that is well known
- adverb extremely well
Etymologies
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Examples
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The label famously turned down the chance to sign the Fab Four in 1962, pronouncing that guitar bands were going out of fashion.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Boies made his name famously defending IBM against the Justice Department and then later helping the Justice Department prosecute Microsoft.
COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE KARL ROVE 2010
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Boies made his name famously defending IBM against the Justice Department and then later helping the Justice Department prosecute Microsoft.
COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE KARL ROVE 2010
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McDonnell is scrambling to put the issue behind him, lest it become his "macaca" -- the term famously used by Allen to describe a young man of Indian descent at a campaign event when he was running for reelection to the U.S. S.nate in 2006.
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The phrase famously serves as the second epigraph to T.S. Eliot's 1927 meditation on despair, "The Hollow Men."
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Yet, to use a term famously employed once by then-United Nations Ambassador Madeleine Albright, who was upset with the Cubans, Richardson does have cojones.
James Warren: Bill Richardson, Suited for Hillary's Role, Named Secretary of Commerce 2009
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He accused Mr Cameron of giving in to the "bastards", the word famously used by John Major to describe those who had attempted to undermine his pro-European stance in the 1990s.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Christopher Hope 2011
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Ludwig Wittgenstein famously insisted at the end of his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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Depending on how far you want to take it, logical positivism forms the basis for most 20th-Cen scientific thought; when asked what time was, Einstein famously replied “Time is what clocks measure”.
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Wittgenstein famously admonished us not to mistake the map for the territory.
Matthew Yglesias » My Theory’s Great, Except for the Times It Doesn’t Work 2010
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