commonly

commonly

English

Alternative forms

• commonlie (obsolete)

Etymology

From common +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmənli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmənli/

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• Hyphenation: com‧mon‧ly

Adverb

commonly (comparative more commonly, superlative most commonly)

1. as a rule; frequently; usually
2. (obsolete) in common; familiarly
   • 1590, Spenser, Edmund, chapter LVI, in The Faerie Queene, Book I, lines 497–501:

     As he thereon stood gazing, he might see / The blessed Angels to and fro descend / From highest heaven in gladsome companee, / And with great joy into that Citie wend, / As commonly as friend does with his frend.

Synonyms

• (as a rule): commonly, most of the time; see also Thesaurus:usually
• (familiarly): affinitatively, friendly, homly, intimately, nearly

Translations

as a rule; usually

Arabic: غالبا‎,عَادَةً‎ (ʿādatan),عُمُومًا‎ (ʿumūman) Armenian: սովորաբար (hy) (sovorabar) Bashkir: ғәҙәттә (ğäðättä) Bulgarian: обичайно (bg) (običajno) Catalan: comunament (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 通常 (tung1 soeng4), 普遍 (pou2 pin3) Mandarin: 通常 (zh) (tōng cháng) Czech: běžně (cs) Esperanto: kutime, komune Finnish: usein (fi), yleisesti (fi) French: fréquemment (fr) Galician: comunmente (gl) German: gewöhnlich (de) Italian: comunemente (it), frequentemente (it), spesso (it), normalmente (it), usualmente (it) Norman: commeunement Polish: powszechnie (pl), zwykle (pl) Portuguese: comumente (pt) Russian: обы́чно (ru) (obýčno), обыкнове́нно (ru) (obyknovénno) Scots: commonly Spanish: comúnmente (es) Swedish: vanligen (sv) Turkish: sık sık (tr), sıkça (tr)

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Scots

Etymology

From common (“common”) +‎ -ly (“-ly”).

Adverb

commonly (comparative mair commonly, superlative maist commonly)

1. Commonly.