Famously - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈfeɪməslɪ|  American pronunciation of the word famously
Brit.  |ˈfeɪməslɪ|  British pronunciation of the word famously

adverb

- in a manner or to an extent that is well known
in his famously anecdotal style
- extremely well (syn: magnificently, splendidly)
we got along famously

Extra examples

The executive famously insisted on riding the bus to work every day.

The trouble with common sense, as Voltaire famously observed, is that it is not very common.

...concerning absolutism Lord Acton famously observed that “absolute power corrupts absolutely”...

...Tom Sawyer famously hoodwinked the other boys into thinking there was nothing more enjoyable than whitewashing a fence....

...a famously prolific author who could produce several works of fiction and nonfiction a year...

...weary of European civilization, the painter Paul Gauguin famously abandoned France to become a solitary in the South Seas...

Sontag was once famously described as the most intelligent woman in America.

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