Finally
/ˈfaɪnəli/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adverbAt the end of a process or after a long wait.
Extra definitions
adverbAfter a long time or delay.
adverbAt the last stage.
adverbIntroducing the last item.
Sentence Examples
The train finally arrived.
Finally, check your spelling.
She finally understood the lesson.
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Word Origin & History
From Middle English finally, fynaly, fynally, fynaliche, fynalliche, equivalent to final + -ly.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
“In a world in which "like singing,/ the next day's shriek for ease rises," in a world whose "survivors" are "capable of any cry, never done/ clasping in the city's shaken places," it is perhaps not surprising to find a dehumanizing but finally protective system of alienation imposing itself.”
— 1975 December 20, Rudy Kikel, “The Closed Closet Policy and the Poetry of Paul Monette”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 25, page 9:
“Cyberneticism is, finally, a refined form of scientism, and therefore it is also more dangerous. This form of scientism is not based on linear causality, as mechanistic thought is; rather, it is based on circular causality.”
— 2024, Egbert Schuurman, Ruben Alvarado, Technology and Christianity: Essays on the Interface, page 113:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The train ____ arrived.