Used in a Sentence

famously

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for famously.

Editorial note

Well, except native apps didn't exist when the iPhone launched and Steve Jobs was famously opposed to them.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

In a celebrated manner.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of famously gathered in one view.

adverb

In a celebrated manner.

adverb

(informal) Really well, having great rapport.

adverb

Indicates that the act, state, or occurrence described by the sentence is famous. In such a manner as to become famous or produce something that would become famous.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for famously.

adverb

In a celebrated manner.

adverb

(informal) Really well, having great rapport.

adverb

Indicates that the act, state, or occurrence described by the sentence is famous. In such a manner as to become famous or produce something that would become famous.

Example sentences

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Well, except native apps didn't exist when the iPhone launched and Steve Jobs was famously opposed to them.

2

Both of which are massive companies that were (and are) famously never first to market with anything.

3

Didn't the economist famously predict the eventual triumph of the horse over the petrol engine in the early 20th century?

4

Brand created the Whole Earth Catalogue, which inspired the first wave of Silicon Valley PC pioneers (Steve Jobs most famously).

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See for example the New York Times and their paywall, which is famously circumvented via Google.

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Zweig’s first foray into the hedge-fund world since leaving the famously secretive and profitable quantitative hedge-fund firm Renaissance Technologies LLC in 2010.

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Some of the best blogs I've ever read have been anonymous, and the famously high-quality Economist has no bylines.

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GH Hardy famously predicted that elementary number theory would have no practical applications.

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And banks are famously recalcitrant when it comes to fixing such situations.

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He famously condoned Ogg/Vorbis using a BSD license so that it would be more greatly adopted by developers/companies making music players and the like.

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Worse still, the typical #GamerGate poster is so consistently well-behaved that opposing commentators have relied on false-flag campaigns, one famously by a Gawker Media employee.

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Think about the famously robotic Queen's Guards in the UK.

Quote examples

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Brandon Sanderson -- who writes epic fantasy that would never be considered "rational fiction" -- is famously good at this.

2

Linus Torvalds famously smacked down C++ and gave at least two reasonable objections to using C++ for "system-level and portable" programming needs [1].

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use famously in a sentence?

Well, except native apps didn't exist when the iPhone launched and Steve Jobs was famously opposed to them.

What does famously mean?

In a celebrated manner.

What part of speech is famously?

famously is commonly used as adverb.