commonly

English

Alternative forms

• commonlie (obsolete)

Etymology

From common +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmənli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmənli/

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• Hyphenation: com‧mon‧ly

Adverb

commonly (comparative more commonly, superlative most commonly)

1. As a rule; frequently; usually.
2. (obsolete) In common; familiarly.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, chapter LVI, in The Faerie Queene, Book I, lines 497–501:

     As he thereon stood gazing, he might see / The blessed Angels to and fro descend / From highest heaven in gladsome companee, / And with great joy into that Citie wend, / As commonly as friend does with his frend.

Synonyms

• (as a rule): commonly, most of the time; see also Thesaurus:usually
• (familiarly): affinitatively, friendly, homly, intimately, nearly

Translations

as a rule; usually

• Arabic: غالبا,عَادَةً (ʕādatan),عُمُومًا (ʕumūman)
• Armenian: սովորաբար (hy) (sovorabar)
• Bashkir: ғәҙәттә (ğəźəttə)
• Bulgarian: обичайно (bg) (običajno)
• Catalan: comunament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 通常 (tung¹ soeng⁴), 普遍 (pou² pin³)

  Mandarin: 通常 (zh) (tōng cháng)

• Czech: běžně (cs)
• Esperanto: kutime, komune
• Finnish: usein (fi), yleisesti (fi)
• French: fréquemment (fr)
• Galician: comunmente (gl)
• Georgian: ხშირად (xširad), ჩვეულებრივ (čveulebriv), როგორც წესი (rogorc c̣esi)
• German: gewöhnlich (de)
• Italian: comunemente (it), frequentemente (it), spesso (it), normalmente (it), usualmente (it)
• Norman: commeunement
• Polish: powszechnie (pl), zwykle (pl)
• Portuguese: comumente (pt)
• Russian: обы́чно (ru) (obýčno), обыкнове́нно (ru) (obyknovénno)
• Scots: commonly
• Spanish: comúnmente (es)
• Swedish: vanligen (sv)
• Turkish: sık sık (tr), sıkça (tr)

Scots

Etymology

From common (“common”) +‎ -ly (“-ly”).

Adverb

commonly (comparative mair commonly, superlative maist commonly)

1. Commonly.