- in a way that is famous
- Some newspapers, most famously the New York Times, refused to print the word Ms.
- the words he famously uttered on his deathbed
Oxford Collocations DictionaryFamously is used with these verbs:- declare
- observe
- remark
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Idioms
See famously in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee famously in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishget on/along famously
- (old-fashioned, informal) to have a very good relationship
- My mother and my mother-in-law are getting on famously.
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