"legally" meaning in English

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Adverb

IPA: /ˈliːɡəli/ Audio: en-us-legally.ogg [US], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-legally.wav [UK] Forms: more legally [comparative], most legally [superlative]
Etymology: legal + -ly Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|legal|ly}} legal + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} legally (comparative more legally, superlative most legally)
  1. As permitted by law; not contrary to law. Synonyms: lawfully Translations (as permitted by law): llegalmente (Asturian), legalment (Catalan), lovligt (Danish), leĝe (Esperanto), laillisesti (Finnish), légalement (French), legalmente (Galician), legal (German), νομίμως (nomímos) (Greek), legálisan (Hungarian), törvényesen (Hungarian), legalmente (Italian), lēge (Latin), juridisk (Norwegian Bokmål), ǣwlīċe (Old English), قانوناً (qânunan) (Persian), legalnie (Polish), legalmente (Portuguese), legal (Romanian), зако́нно (zakónno) (Russian), лега́льно (legálʹno) (Russian), legalmente (Spanish), juridisk (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-legally-en-adv-~P9zs-M4 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: 92 8 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 85 15 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ly: 87 13 Disambiguation of 'as permitted by law': 100 0
  2. From a legal perspective. Translations (from a legal perspective): legalment (Catalan), lovmæssigt (Danish), laŭleĝe (Esperanto), juridisesti (Finnish), νομικώς (nomikós) (Greek), jogilag (Hungarian), legalnie (Polish), legal (Romanian), juridic (Romanian), juridicește (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-legally-en-adv-MO3jZ39Z Disambiguation of 'from a legal perspective': 1 99

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      "word": "legally permitted"
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      "word": "legally dead"
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.