adv
Meaning 1
As a professional; for one's paid career.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Steve Davis plays snooker professionally.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
professionally
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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CMU ARPABET: P R AH0 F EH1 SH AH0 N AH0 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: P R AH0 F EH1 SH N AH0 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
In a professional manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- You handled that customer's complaint very professionally.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
in a professional manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- professionally trained staff
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English professional 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 professionally From professional + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: professionalment — in a professional manner
- Esperanto: profesie — in a professional manner
- Finnish: ammattimaisesti — in a professional manner
- French: professionnellement — in a professional manner
- Galician: profesionalmente — in a professional manner
- Italian: professionalmente — in a professional manner
- Polish: profesjonalnie — in a professional manner
- Portuguese: profissionalmente — in a professional manner
- Romanian: profesional — in a professional manner
- Romanian: în mod profesional — in a professional manner
- Slovak: profesionálne — in a professional manner
- Slovak: odborne — in a professional manner
- Spanish: profesionalmente — in a professional manner
- Swedish: professionellt — in a professional manner
- Swedish: yrkesmässigt — in a professional manner
- Ukrainian: професі́йно (profesíjno) — in a professional manner
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