"commonly" meaning in English

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Adverb

IPA: /ˈkɑmənli/ [General-American], /ˈkɒmənli/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-commonly.ogg [US] Forms: more commonly [comparative], most commonly [superlative]
Etymology: From common + -ly. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|common|ly}} common + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} commonly (comparative more commonly, superlative most commonly)
  1. As a rule; frequently; usually. Translations (as a rule; usually): غالبا (Arabic), عَادَةً (ʕādatan) (Arabic), عُمُومًا (ʕumūman) (Arabic), սովորաբար (sovorabar) (Armenian), ғәҙәттә (ğəźəttə) (Bashkir), обичайно (običajno) (Bulgarian), comunament (Catalan), 通常 (english: tung¹ soeng⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 普遍 (pou² pin³) (Chinese Cantonese), 通常 (tōng cháng) (Chinese Mandarin), běžně (Czech), kutime (Esperanto), komune (Esperanto), usein (Finnish), yleisesti (Finnish), fréquemment (French), comunmente (Galician), ხშირად (xširad) (Georgian), ჩვეულებრივ (čveulebriv) (Georgian), როგორც წესი (rogorc c̣esi) (Georgian), gewöhnlich (German), comunemente (Italian), frequentemente (Italian), spesso (Italian), normalmente (Italian), usualmente (Italian), commeunement (Norman), powszechnie (Polish), zwykle (Polish), comumente (Portuguese), обы́чно (obýčno) (Russian), обыкнове́нно (obyknovénno) (Russian), commonly (Scots), comúnmente (Spanish), vanligen (Swedish), sık sık (Turkish), sıkça (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-commonly-en-adv-obqnwYka Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ly Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 26 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 86 14 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ly: 79 21 Disambiguation of 'as a rule; usually': 99 1
  2. (obsolete) In common; familiarly. Tags: obsolete Synonyms (familiarly): affinitatively, friendly, homly, intimately, nearly
    Sense id: en-commonly-en-adv-De~YStHt Disambiguation of 'familiarly': 10 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: most of the time, usually, commonlie [obsolete]

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    {
      "code": "sco",
      "lang": "Scots",
      "sense": "as a rule; usually",
      "word": "commonly"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "as a rule; usually",
      "word": "comúnmente"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "as a rule; usually",
      "word": "vanligen"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "as a rule; usually",
      "word": "sık sık"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "as a rule; usually",
      "word": "sıkça"
    }
  ],
  "word": "commonly"
}

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