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OneKitly

primarily

adverbeattesté dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li//
  • Royaume-Uni//pɹaɪˈmɛɹ.əli//
  • Canada//pɹaɪˈmɛɹ.əli//

Of a primary or central nature, first and foremost.

adverbe

  1. 1

    Of a primary or central nature, first and foremost.

    The idea of fitting a crane to an engine for shunting duties, primarily in works yards, appears to have originated with the North London Railway engine in 1872.

    These spectacles aren't calls for a Hobbesian war of all against all by some insurgent movement that, however dangerous, would have First Amendment protection. They're driven primarily by institutions that we as sovereign citizens created to serve our purposes.

    But now a study has shown that most cancers are primarily caused by bad luck rather than poor lifestyle choices or defective DNA.

    Zika virus disease is caused by a virus transmitted primarily by Aedes mosquitoes, which bite during the day.

Étymologie

Etymology tree English primary Middle English -ly English -ly English primarily From primary + -ly.

Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).