mainly
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈmeɪnli/]
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1. mainly (adv) — sense 1
Definition: Of a person or thing being the driving force influencing the outcome of an event; chiefly; certainly for the most part.
Example: She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.
2. mainly (adv) — sense 2
Definition: Forcefully, vigorously.
Example: Such breadth of ſhoulders as might mainely beare
Olde Atlas burthen, […]
3. mainly (adv) — sense 3
Definition: Of the production of a sound: loudly, powerfully.
Example: But in the end, mainly crying out, he fell to raling and wringing his master, upbraiding him that he was not a true Philosopher[…].
Structure of the word
Roots:- megʰ (Proto-Indo-European)
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