FLUENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fluently mean? 

• FLUENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb FLUENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in a fluent manner

  Familiarity information: FLUENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLUENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a fluent manner

Context example:

she speaks French fluently

Pertainym:

fluent (expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively)

 Context examples 

One useful result of his former experiences was that he could talk fluently in the Lingoa Geral, which is the peculiar talk, one-third Portuguese and two-thirds Indian, which is current all over Brazil.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And finding the sounds for words is essential when you want to produce language fluently.

(Exercise May Help Seniors with Word, Memory Problems, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Her congratulations were warm and open; but Emma could not speak so fluently.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She came and shook hand with me when she heard that I was her governess; and as I led her in to breakfast, I addressed some phrases to her in her own tongue: she replied briefly at first, but after we were seated at the table, and she had examined me some ten minutes with her large hazel eyes, she suddenly commenced chattering fluently.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced herself to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave him to understand that her sentiments had undergone so material a change, since the period to which he alluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Of course they were the most remarkable children ever born, as will be shown when I mention that they walked at eight months, talked fluently at twelve months, and at two years they took their places at table, and behaved with a propriety which charmed all beholders.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When he had gone half way he turned around and stared at the scene—his wife and Catherine scolding and consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with articles of aid, and the despairing figure on the couch bleeding fluently and trying to spread a copy of Town Tattle over the tapestry scenes of Versailles.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)