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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈsteɪtli/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-stately.wav Forms: statelier [comparative], stateliest [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English staately, staatly, stateli, statelie, stately, statelyche, statelye, statli, statly; equivalent to state + -ly. Compare stour. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|staately}} Middle English staately, {{suf|en|state|ly|id2=adjectival}} state + -ly Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} stately (comparative statelier, superlative stateliest)
  1. (of people) Worthy of respect; dignified, regal. Translations (worthy of respect): величествен (veličestven) (Bulgarian), vznešený (Czech), anselig (Danish), prægtig (Danish), statelig (Danish), statig (Dutch), majesta (Esperanto), arvokas (Finnish), kunnianarvoisa (Finnish), imposant (French), stattlich (German), státúil (Irish), prestante (Italian), staselig (Norwegian Bokmål), statelig (Norwegian Bokmål), majestoso (Portuguese), imponente (Portuguese), majestuoso (Spanish), ståtlig (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-stately-en-adj-eHkXihNu Disambiguation of 'worthy of respect': 96 3 2
  2. (of movement) Deliberate, unhurried; dignified.
    Sense id: en-stately-en-adj-O-6AZiPH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ly (adjectival), English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial), Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 56 5 1 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ly (adjectival): 26 62 12 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial): 25 59 11 5 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 20 75 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 36 54 9 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 30 61 7 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 25 66 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 27 61 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 19 74 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 20 73 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 22 66 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 24 68 9 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 21 72 7 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 21 72 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 26 58 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 19 76 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 24 66 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 25 63 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 18 77 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 24 63 13
  3. Grand; impressive; imposing. Translations (grand, impressive): majestátní (Czech), vznešený (Czech), impozantní (Czech)
    Sense id: en-stately-en-adj-KXFLy12E Disambiguation of 'grand, impressive': 1 2 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: stately elm, stately home, stately bush brown
Etymology number: 1

Adverb [English]

IPA: /ˈsteɪtli/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-stately.wav Forms: more stately [comparative], most stately [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English stately, statli, equivalent to state + -ly. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|stately}} Middle English stately, {{suf|en|state|-ly|id2=adverbial}} state + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} stately (comparative more stately, superlative most stately)
  1. In a stately manner.
    Sense id: en-stately-en-adv-6QseSezj
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "text": "At about twenty past three in the afternoon, these aircraft duly began to arrive. The cruiser Northampton was towing Hornet at a stately five knots when, out of the sky, came seven torpedo-armed aircraft. They managed to miss the barely-moving Hornet with all but one drop... but one hit was really all that it took, the location causing additional damage to the stricken carrier and demolishing most of the repairs that had been made to the earlier damage.",
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        "(of movement) Deliberate, unhurried; dignified."
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        "of movement"
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          "ref": "1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 55:",
          "text": "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, pages 271–272:",
          "text": "Their stately offices—their pleasant gardens—the magnificent cloisters constructed for their recreation, were all dilapidated and ruinous; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752:",
          "text": "Below is the deep abyss of the Lauterbrunnen valley, and at its head a stately semi-circle of mountains, with the pyramidal Lauterbrunnen Breithorn as the centre-piece.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, John le Carré [pseudonym; David John Moore Cornwell], A Perfect Spy:",
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      "word": "anselig"
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      "sense": "worthy of respect",
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      "sense": "worthy of respect",
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    },
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      "sense": "worthy of respect",
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      "sense": "worthy of respect",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "worthy of respect",
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    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "worthy of respect",
      "word": "kunnianarvoisa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "worthy of respect",
      "word": "imposant"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "worthy of respect",
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    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "worthy of respect",
      "word": "státúil"
    },
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "worthy of respect",
      "word": "prestante"
    },
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      "sense": "worthy of respect",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "worthy of respect",
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    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "grand, impressive",
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    },
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      "code": "cs",
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}

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}

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