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/dʒˈɛnərəli/ /dʒˈɛnrəli/ Listen

adverb

Generally adv.

In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.

In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. "Generally speaking, they live very quietly."

Collectively; as a whole; without omissions. (Obs.) "I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Generally" Quotes from Famous Books

... Felix, looking across the garden to the yellow fields beyond. "A perfect day. We'll walk to church." He brushed the breakfast crumbs from the waistcoat of his neat blue suit, lit his pipe, sniffed the air contentedly, and had an air generally of a sailor ...

— The Extra Day • Algernon Blackwood

... familiarity "quite meridional," as a Frenchman would have said. But if this person did not come from the South, he had got his temperament there; he talked and gesticulated with volubility; his thought must come out or the machine would burst. His eyes, small as those of witty men generally are, his mouth, large and mobile, were safety-pipes which allowed him to give passage to his overflowing thoughts; he talked, and talked, and talked so much and so fast that Shandon couldn't understand a word he ...

— The English at the North Pole - Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne

... poured forth amidst the woods in the days of summer. Many very pretty stories are told of different robins who have been tamed by kindness until they seemed to lose almost all that fear of man which is generally so striking in birds. ...

— Mamma's Stories about Birds • Anonymous (AKA the author of "Chickseed without Chickweed")

... An answer speedy as an arrow's flight ought indeed to have responded, but I am always rather indolent about writing, because I think that the better class of men know me sufficiently without this. I often compose the answer in my head, but when I wish to write it down I generally throw aside the pen, from not being able to write as I feel. I recall all the kindness you have ever shown me; for example, your causing my room to be whitewashed, which was an agreeable surprise to me. ...

— Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826 Vol. 2 • Lady Wallace

... different confusions of three hundred and fifty million other persons scattered about the globe, and here were the Germans over against us, fifty-six millions, in a state of confusion no whit better than our own, and the noisy little creatures who directed papers and wrote books and gave lectures, and generally in that time of world-dementia pretended to be the national mind, were busy in both countries, with a sort of infernal unanimity, exhorting—and not only exhorting but successfully persuading—the two peoples to divert ...

— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells

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