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CEREMONIOUSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ceremoniously mean?
• CEREMONIOUSLY (adverb)
The adverb CEREMONIOUSLY has 1 sense:
1. in a ceremonious manner
Familiarity information: CEREMONIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a ceremonious manner
Synonyms:
ceremonially; ceremoniously
Context example:
my mother advised her children ceremoniously
Antonym:
unceremoniously (in an unceremonious manner)
Pertainym:
ceremonious (rigidly formal or bound by convention)
Context examples
The matter being thus amicably settled, Mr. Micawber gave Mrs. Micawber his arm, and glancing at the heap of books and papers lying before Traddles on the table, said they would leave us to ourselves; which they ceremoniously did.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He took them ceremoniously from group to group: "Mrs. Buchanan . . . and Mr. Buchanan—" After an instant's hesitation he added: "the polo player."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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