ORIGINALLY • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Originally

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ərˈɪdʒənəli/ /ərˈɪdʒnəli/ Listen

adverb

Originally adv.

In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation. "God is originally holy in himself."

At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as, a book originally written by another hand. "Originally a half length (portrait)."

See images of 'Originally'

Etymology of 'Originally'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Originally" Quotes from Famous Books

... most navigated and frequented river in these parts, because the country about it is the most inhabited. Its larger population as compared with other places is owing, for the most part, first to the fact that the capital was originally established here, and has ever since remained here, under whatever government has prevailed, although the South River was first discovered; secondly, because it is the most convenient place for the purposes of navigation, I mean the capital, and is the middle and centre ...

— Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 • Jasper Danckaerts

... broadcast from central office must be sent to the twin cities of Tarog. Otherwise the convention would learn too soon what was happening, and would interrupt its business. The thousands who waited outside on the broad terraces must be regaled with entertainment, as had been originally planned. ...

— The Martian Cabal • Roman Frederick Starzl

... quaint and very ancient animals probably preserve for us in their general structure the features of an extremely early descendant of the common ancestor from whom mammals, birds, and reptiles alike are originally derived. ...

— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen

... impatience,—indeed, as though he were merely rearranging the fire,—contrived to undo her work; she brought to hand the utensils, but Dick, in searching for them, always looked where they had originally been placed. His object seemed not so much to thwart the girl as to ignore her. When breakfast was ready he divided it into two portions, one of which he ate. After the meal he washed the few dishes. Once he took a cup from the girl's hand as she was drying it, much as ...

— The Silent Places • Stewart Edward White

... been called Contributions to Canadian Literature, for of the papers not originally published in Canada several were reproduced in Canadian journals. Political subjects have been excluded both to keep a volume intended for friends free from anything of a party character and because the writer looks forward to ...

— Lectures and Essays • Goldwin Smith

More quotes...