"partly" meaning in English

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Adverb

IPA: /ˈpɑɹtli/ [General-American], /ˈpɑːtli/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-partly.ogg
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tli Etymology: From part + -ly. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|part|ly}} part + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} partly (not comparable)
  1. In part, or to some degree, but not completely. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: partially Related terms: partially Translations (in part): մասամբ (masamb) (Armenian), частко́ва (častkóva) (Belarusian), частично (častično) (Bulgarian), отчасти (otčasti) (Bulgarian), 部分地 (bùfèn de) (Chinese Mandarin), částečně (Czech), delvis (Danish), deels (Dutch), gedeeltelijk (Dutch), parte (Esperanto), osittain (Finnish), en partie (French), teilweise (German), zum Teil (German), חלקי (chelki) (Hebrew), részben (Hungarian), 部分的に (bubunteki ni) (alt: ぶぶんてきに) (Japanese), 一部 (ichibu) (alt: いちぶ) (Japanese), partim (Latin), делумно (delumno) (Macedonian), deelwiess (Plautdietsch), częściowo (Polish), po części (Polish), em parte (Portuguese), части́чно (častíčno) (Russian), отча́сти (otčásti) (Russian), en parte (Spanish), en cierto modo (Spanish), dels (Swedish), частко́во (častkóvo) (Ukrainian), поча́сти (počásty) (Ukrainian)
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          "word": "մասամբ"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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.