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Definition of Famously
1. Adverb. In a manner or to an extent that is well known. "In his famously anecdotal style"
2. Adverb. Extremely well. "We got along famously"
Definition of Famously
1. adv. In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly.
Definition of Famously
1. Adverb. In a celebrated manner.(rfex) ¹
2. Adverb. (non-gloss definition Indicates that the act, state(,) or occurrence described by the sentence is famous.)Category:English sentence adverbs ¹
3. Adverb. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Famously
1. famous [adv] - See also: famous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Famously
Literary usage of Famously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"That will do famously—there's a tenderness, a passionate earnestness in the lines
that must subdue her. Trap ! TRAP. Sir! Enter MRS. ..."
2. The Life and Reminiscences of E. L. Blanchard by Edward L. Blanchard, Drinkwater Meadows (1891)
"Sing ' Guy Fawkes ' and Almanac song; all goes off famously. Home at 4 with
Marston, Summers, ... famously ..."
3. The Great American Fraud by Samuel Hopkins Adams (1907)
"... forged a document or two, and was doing famously when the County Medical
Society descended upon him and he hastened to parts unknown to avoid forcible ..."
4. Notes of Thought by Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883)
"... but his greatest topic is, how shockingly his neighbours have behaved to him,
and how famously he has put them down and defeated them. ..."
5. Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer (1904)
"The young man has done famously during the first year of his married life, and
the old man has decided to give him a more important position. ..."
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