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Definition of famously adverb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

famously

adverb
 
/ˈfeɪməsli/
 
/ˈfeɪməsli/
Idioms
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  1. in a way that is famous
    • Some newspapers, most famously the New York Times, refused to print the word Ms.
    • the words he famously uttered on his deathbed
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryFamously is used with these verbs:
    • declare
    • observe
    • remark
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Idioms
get on/along famously
  1. (old-fashioned, informal) to have a very good relationship
    • My mother and my mother-in-law are getting on famously.
See famously in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee famously in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
previously
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