Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- At the end or conclusion; ultimately; at last; lastly: as, he finally submitted.
- Completely; beyond recovery.
Wiktionary
- adv. At the end or conclusion; ultimately.
- adv. sequence To finish (with); lastly.
- adv. manner Definitively, comprehensively.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly.
- adv. Completely; beyond recovery.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. as the end result of a succession or process
- adv. after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay
- adv. the item at the end
Etymologies
- final + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When the end of the term finally arrived, Marks came to drive Teddy to the house at Hyannis Port.”
“The word finally came from London on the afternoon of November 29.”
“The word finally reaches one of the advertising publications.”
Simon & Schuster: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor
“Interestingly enough, a full FOURTEEN issues into the current Wonder Woman relaunch, the title finally gets a reasonable start to the series this is not even meant as a shot at Heinberg or Picoult, they just were not given the opportunity to truly launch the title, as their runs were limited ones with Gail Simone joining the book as the regular title.”
Wonder Woman #14 Review | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
“My name finally appeared at the top of the third page.”
“Longfellow's _Christus, a Mystery_, was the title finally given by him to three apparently separate poems, published under the titles, _The Golden”
“Darwin finally is off this morning to Shrewsbury for three weeks.”
“Tablets iPads and the MacBook Air present enormous existential threats to Ye Olde Windows Laptop, and now that the HPs and Dells of the word finally have the means to fight them, might as well market the hell out of them.”
“Coverdale, faced with a quickly approaching deadline and pressure from management and the label finally recruited former Frank Zappa guitarist Steve Vai to fill the chair.”
“Three quick goals late in the term finally gave Sydney some breathing space until a Cox set shot after the siren left the Eagles trailing by 22 points at halftime.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘finally’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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steffany(grade 2)
accident, agree, arrive, astronomy, attention, award, aware, balance, banner, bare, base, beach and 127 more...
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jackgrade2
accident, agree, arrive, astronomy, atlas, attention, award, aware, balance, banner, bare, base and 127 more...
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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summary
in short, on the whole, as I said, in other words, to be sure, in fact, indeed, clearly, of course, anyway, remarkably, I think and 11 more...
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Time transitional
meanwhile, at length, presently, at last, finally, immediately, thereafter, at that time, subsequently, eventually, currently, in the meantime and 2 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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no little thing
it bothers me when i hear someone who have experienced something life changing use the phrase: now i appreciate the little things. I DON'T BELIEVE THERE ARE ANY LITTLE THINGS. everything is EXTRAOR...
letters, living, understand, narrow, behavior, personal, need, meant, untamed, world, soldier, 'cause and 241 more...
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him and i
peach, left, alone, abandon, horid, gay, bloody, beautiful, outside, inside, confused, unconditional and 111 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
Programming
class, function, method, instance, value, variable, boolean, if, else, while, for, elseif and 95 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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song starters (twisted song starters)
Words/phrases inextricably tied to the songs they're in, sparking off earworms here there & everywhere (there's one, to start with). Only my own personal examples.
Do guess the more p...as i recall, here there and ev..., firestarter, final countdown, every now and then, turn around, pipe wrench, goodness gracious, insane, fuck you, scat, 21 seconds and 79 more...
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Weekly Words (Oct 5, 2008)
I am using Mechanical Turk to collect “words of the week†from 100 different people.
nauseous, bildungsroman, stabby, bored, faith, crisis, positive, hectic, friendly, dogs, easy, awesome and 75 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for finally.
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