famously
/fˈeɪməsli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.49 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a celebrated manner.
Example Sentences
- "President Roosevelt famously said "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.""
- "But even as religion was on the rise, the word "God" declined dramatically over the course of the eighteenth century. The word is famously absent from the Constitution, but it was also relatively absent from the printed texts of the decade in which the Constitution was drafted and adopted, and more broadly from the revolutionary period overall."
- "Just as Hillary Rodham Clinton famously put "18 million cracks in the glass ceiling" for women in high office, so there are a number of corporate executives who are doing the same for the lavender ceiling faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees. It's just a matter of time before they are promoted to the top job."
- "She famously could not drive, but she introduced the breathalyser test to prosecute drunks who tried to."
- "The new roommates got on famously."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
more famously (comparative)
most famously (superlative)