dictionary definitions for "usually"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  usually
      adv : under normal conditions; "usually she was late" [syn:
            normally, unremarkably, commonly, ordinarily]
            [ant: unusually]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Usual \U"su*al\, a. [L. usualis, from usus use: cf. F. usuel.
     See Use, n.]
     Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary
     practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary;
     ordinary; habitual; common.
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           Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and
           frequent in their times.                 --Hooker.
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           We can make friends of these usual enemies. --Baxter.
     [1913 Webster] -- U"su*al*ly, adv. -- U"su*al*ness, n.
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