Etymology
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From Middle English usualli, equivalent to usual + -ly. Displaced native Old English ġewunelīċe.
Pronunciation
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usually (comparative more usually, superlative most usually)
- Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally.
Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work.
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend ; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous, […].
- Under normal conditions.
Synonyms
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- (most of the time): generally, mainly, commonly, regularly, mostly, on the whole, in the main, for the most part, by and large, most often, ordinarily, wontedly; see also Thesaurus:usually
- (under normal conditions): customarily, habitually, wontly, normally, routinely, as a rule; see also Thesaurus:normally
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Translations
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most of the time
- Afrikaans: gewoonlik (af)
- Arabic: عَادَةً (ʕādatan)
- Armenian: սովորաբար (hy) (sovorabar)
- Azerbaijani: adətən (az), bir qayda olaraq
- Bashkir: ғәҙәттә (ğəźəttə)
- Bengali: সাধারণ ভাবে (śadharon bhabe)
- Breton: peurvuiañ (br), peurliesañ (br)
- Bulgarian: обикновено (bg) (obiknoveno)
- Catalan: normalment (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 平時/平时 (ping4 si4)
- Mandarin: 通常 (zh) (tōngcháng)
- Crimean Tatar: esasen, adetince, çoqu
- Czech: obvykle (cs)
- Danish: som regel, sædvanligvis
- Dutch: meestal (nl), gewoonlijk (nl)
- Esperanto: kutime, komune
- Finnish: yleensä (fi), tavallisesti (fi), useimmiten (fi)
- French: généralement (fr), habituellement (fr), d’habitude (fr), normalement (fr), usuellement (fr)
- Galician: usualmente
- Georgian: ჩვეულებრივ (čveulebriv)
- German: gewöhnlich (de)
- Greek: συνήθως (el) (syníthos)
- Hebrew: בדרך כלל (he)
- Hindi: आम्म तौर पर (āmm taur par)
- Hungarian: általában (hu), rendszerint (hu)
- Ido: maxim-multa-kaze (io)
- Indonesian: biasanya (id)
- Irish: go hiondúil
- Italian: di solito (it), generalmente (it), solitamente (it)
- Japanese: 通常 (ja) (つうじょう, tsūjō), たいてい (ja) (大抵, taitei)
- Kapampangan: keraklan
- Latvian: parasti
- Lithuanian: paprastai
- Navajo: łeh
- Ngazidja Comorian: eaghâlaɓu
- Norman: de couteume (Guernsey)
- Norwegian: vanligvis
- Old English: ġewunelīċe
- Persian: معمولاً (fa) (ma'mulan)
- Plautdietsch: derchwajch
- Polish: zwykle (pl), zazwyczaj (pl)
- Portuguese: geralmente (pt)
- Romanian: de obicei, în general
- Russian: обы́чно (ru) (obýčno)
- Scottish Gaelic: mar as trice (present and future), mar bu trice (past and conditional)
- Serbo-Croatian: obično (sh) n
- Spanish: usualmente (es)
- Swahili: kwa kawaida
- Swedish: vanligtvis (sv)
- Telugu: మామూలుగా (māmūlugā), సాధారణంగా (sādhāraṇaṅgā)
- Turkish: genellikle (tr), genelde
- Ukrainian: зазвича́й (zazvyčáj)
- Urdu: عام طور پر (āmm taur par)
- Welsh: fel arfer
- Zazaki: degmesi
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