Famously

Definition: Famously

Famously

Adverb

1. In a superlative manner; "we got on famously".

Date "famously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Greatness	Particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly; famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, gr/kat exochin/, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Famously

Specialty definitions using "famously": Charles Simonyi ♦ Google ♦ Old Boots ♦ You know you've been hacking too long when, You know you've been hacking too long when.... (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	BBC: Living Famously - Anthony Quinn (2003)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Travel	Czech Rep	Prague and other Czech cities are very safe by U.S. standards, but visitors are encouraged to exercise common sense precautions and be particularly wary of Prague's famously efficient pickpockets. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Famously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 98.31% of the time. "Famously" is used about 118 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	98.31%	116	29,969
Noun (proper)	1.69%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	118	N/A

Expression using "famously": get on famously with smb.. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "famously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shkëlqyeshëm (capitally, fine, first rate, summa cum laude). (various references)

Arabic		‏على نحو معروف. (various references)

Bulgarian		отлично (capitally, excellently, fine, first rate, par excellence, perfectly, perfectly well, primely, to perfection, well enough), много добре (very well, well and good). (various references)

Czech		slavnì (notedly), senzaènì (beautifully), bájeènì (delightfully, great, wonderfully). (various references)

French		fameusement. (various references)

German		berühmte (famous). (various references)

Hungarian		remekül (fine, first rate, like one o'clock, superbly, to feel prime, wonderfully). (various references)

Manx		dy-braew. (various references)

Pig Latin		amouslyfay

Portuguese		famosamente, escritor famoso. (various references)

Russian		здорово (properly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		slavno. (various references)

Spanish		famosamente. (various references)

Swedish		utmärkt (cool, crackerjack, eminent, excellent, famous, grand, immense, imperial, nailing, primely, ripping, splendid, that's great). (various references)

Turkish		pek iyi, mükemmel (accomplished, all around, alpha plus, ambrosial, bang up, banner, beyond praise, bully, capital, champion, classic, classical, classy, commanding, complete, consummate, cool, copybook, Dandy, dreamy, elegant, excellent, famous, faultless, fine, finished, first class, great, immense, jolly good, no mean, par excellence, perfect, ripping, scrumptious, slap up, smashing, smooth, solid, sovereign, spiffing, spiffy, splendid, splendiferous, super, superb, superlative, that takes the cake, the dandy, thorough, thoroughgoing, tiptop, to a turn, to the nines, topping, triumphant, unique). (various references)

Ukranian		відмінно (nicely, perfectly, well). (various references)

Vietnamese		tốt (all right, decently, feracious, fertile, fine, hunky, o.k., splendid), giỏi (adept, consummate, conversant, dab, death, nut, versed, well-up), chiến (bang-up, bonzer, elegant, famous, hunky-dory, magnificent, slap-up, smashing, solid, spanking, super), cừ (bully, classy, elegant, magnificent, posh, pretty, solid, spanking, spile). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "famously": infamously. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Famously" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Faneuil, fatously. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "famously" (pronounced fā"muslē)
5	-m u s l ē	anonymously, autonomously, enormously, posthumously, synonymously, unanimously.
4	-u s l ē	aimlessly, ambitiously, anxiously, assiduously, breathlessly, callously, capriciously, carelessly, cautiously, ceaselessly, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, curiously, dangerously, deliciously, disastrously, effortlessly, egregiously, endlessly, enviously, erroneously, expeditiously, fabulously, facetiously, fallaciously, ferociously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, furiously, generously, gloriously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, harmlessly, harmoniously, hellaciously, helplessly, hideously, hilariously, hopelessly, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intravenously, jealously, judiciously, laboriously, listlessly, ludicrously, maliciously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, mysteriously, needlessly, nervously, notoriously, obviously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, painlessly, perilously, piously, precariously, precipitously, previously, prodigiously, purposely, recklessly, relentlessly, religiously, restlessly, ridiculously, righteously, rigorously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, seriously, shamelessly, simultaneously, spontaneously, strenuously, studiously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, tediously, tenaciously, tirelessly, tremendously, tremulously, unambiguously, unceremoniously, unconsciously, variously, vicariously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously, zealously.
3	-s l ē	adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-l-m-o-s-u-y"
	-2 letters: asylum, famous.
	-3 letters: afoul, alums, amyls, flams, flamy, flays, foals, foams, foamy, fouls, loafs, loams, loamy, lousy, mauls, mayos, molas, mousy, ofays, solum, sulfa, sulfo.
	-4 letters: alms, also, alum, amus, amyl, fays, flam, flay, flus, foal, foam, foul, foys, fumy, lams, lays, loaf, loam, lums, maul, mayo, mays, moas, mola, mols, moly, oafs, ofay, saul, slam, slay, slum, sofa, sola, soma, soul, soya, sumo, yams.
	-5 letters: als, amu, ays, fas, fay, flu, fly, fou, foy, lam, las, lay, lum, mas, may, moa, mol, mos, mus, oaf, oms, sal, sau, say, sly, sol, som, sou, soy, sum, yam, yom, you, yum.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-l-m-o-s-u-y"
	+2 letters: infamously.
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