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    Definition of famously in English Dictionary

  • AdverbCOMmore famouslySUPmost famouslySUF-ly
    1. (Discuss(+) this sense) In a celebrated manner.
      1. Indicates that the act, state, or occurrence described by the sentence is famous.
        1. Really well, having great rapport.
          1. The new roommates got on famously.
      2. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • Jack Kevorkian, euthanasia activist, famously said "dying is not a crime".
          • Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (published 1853) famously features valkyries.
          • That was the same slogan that Vice President Dan Quayle famously misrecalled in 1989 when he said, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind.”
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Adverbs
          • Sentence adverbs
          • Morphemes
            • Suffixes
              • Words by suffix
                • Words suffixed with -ly

          Other Vocabulary

          Look-Alike Words
          1. en camously
          2. en famoused
          3. en fatuously
          4. en featously
          5. en furiously
          Source: Wiktionary

          Meaning of famously for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this word "famously" is an adverb, more specifically, a sentence adverb. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe.
          Definiteness: Level 1
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