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famously

famously

76 2.4
In a way that many people know about
  • adverb
  • /ˈfeɪməsli/
translation icon : famosamente
  • The U.S. State Department budget famously has fewer foreign service officers than the Pentagon has military band musicians.
  • most famously
  • famously said
  • famously remarked

You know, we, we, we famously during COVID launched.

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Examples

  • We're getting along famously.

  • The president is famously late, and you've had a long flight, so...

  • But it's like George Washington famously said, that little girl was me.

  • And Matt, Donald Trump has been famously very, very critical of The Who.

  • I thought I was quoting that lady who famously won the lottery.

  • "If men were angels," Madison famously wrote, "no government would be necessary."

    Academic text (1997)
  • So Jordan Peterson famously says clean up your room.

  • Einstein famously said God does not play dice.

  • I mean, publishing is a famously very posh sort of sector.

  • The restaurant is famously known for its delicious seafood dishes.

Synonyms

popularly
vsfamously
12 2.8

In a way many people accept or believe

is widely known or recognized rather than simply commonly believed

How Widely Known

globally
77 3.5
internationally
103 2.9
famously
76 2.4
nationally
160 3.0
locally
127 1.4
obscurely
2 7.7

Surface Forms

famously positive

Morphology

famously = famous (transparent) = fame + ous + ly

A regular adverb formed by adding '-ly' to the adjective 'famous'; the derivation is straightforward.

Etymology

Famously comes from the word fame, which comes from Latin fama meaning 'report' or 'rumour'. So to do something famously is to do it in a way many people know about or talk about.