adv
Meaning 1
Done in a lateral manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
laterally
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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US: /ˈlæ.tə.ɹə.li/
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US: [ˈlæ.ɾə.ɹə.li]
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CMU ARPABET: L AE1 T ER0 AH0 L IY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
Relating to the direction to the side.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
in a lateral direction or location
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the body is spindle-shaped and only slightly compressed laterally
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 4
to or by or from the side
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- such women carry in their heads kinship knowledge of six generations depth and extending laterally among consanguineal kin as far as the grandchildren of second cousin
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English lateral Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English laterally From lateral + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: lateralment — done in a lateral manner
- Finnish: lateraalisesti — done in a lateral manner
- Finnish: sivuttain — done in a lateral manner
- Finnish: kyljittäin — done in a lateral manner
- French: latéralement — done in a lateral manner
- German: lateral — done in a lateral manner
- Italian: lateralmente — done in a lateral manner
- Polish: bocznie — done in a lateral manner
- Portuguese: lateralmente — done in a lateral manner
- Romanian: lateral — done in a lateral manner
- Spanish: lateralmente — done in a lateral manner
Real reading context