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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search
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literally
adverb
In the direct, word for word sense. With neither idiom nor metaphor.
When my sewing kit fell off of the barn loft, I had to look for a needle in a haystack.
(
proscribed
) really, Really (as an intensifier; see usage notes)
1827
: Sir Walter Scott,
Chronicles of the Canongate
: The house was electrified; and it was only from witnessing the effects of her genius that he could guess to what a pitch theatrical excellence could be carried.
1847
: Charlotte Bronte,
Jane Eyre
:
Literally
, I was (what he often called me) the apple of his eye.
1850
: Charles Dickens,
David Copperfield
.
: ...there is never a candle lighted in this house, until one's eyes are falling out of one's head with being stretched to read the paper.
1894
: Arthur Conan Doyle,
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
.
: ...at a time when Europe was ringing with his name and when his room was ankle-deep with congratulatory telegrams...
1895
: Thomas Hardy,
Jude the Obscure
.
: It was teeming, stratified, with the shades of human groups, who had met there for tragedy, comedy, farce...
1993
: Wayne W. Dyer,
Real Magic
, p.193
: You become the ball in a tennis match, you become the report that you are working on ...
1999
Oct 21: Ridley99,
Re: 5 best comic artists ao all time
, <tt>rec.arts.comics.misc</tt>,
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.comics.misc/msg/ecb8595ee6baaad9?dmode=source&hl=en
: He can turn the world upside down with his gift of perspective and vanishing points.
2002
: Norbert P. Psuty & Douglas D. Ofiara,
Costal Hazard Management: lessons and future directions from New Jersey
, p.247
: The summer populations of beach communities explode, and the local infrastructure (roads, water, sewerage, waste hauling) either wear out or exceed their designed capacities more quickly.
2004
Mar 18: Zelgadis,
Re: Hello Newsgroup
, <tt>alt.games.everquest</tt>,
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.games.everquest/msg/f475b309fe4ebb31?dmode=source&hl=en
: He's just that bad that he was striped of his post count at one point, which caused him to explode into tears (hey, he even sent me an IM).
Translations:
Dutch: letterlijk
French: texto, mot í mot
Italian: letteralmente
Spanish: literalmente
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