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Etymology

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From separate +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛpɹətli/, /ˈsɛpəɹətli/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: sep‧a‧rate‧ly

Adverb

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separately (not comparable)

  1. In a separate manner; not together; apart.
    We've been living separately for three years.
    Tackle the different parts of the climb separately before attempting the whole thing in one go.
    • 2002, Joan L. Bybee, Michael Noonan, Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse, page 152:
      Syntactically, hendiadic constructions differ from synthetonic sequences in that the latter are separate clauses, and hence are separately negatable and may have different tenses and aspects and different subjects.

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