ORIGINALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does originally mean? 

• ORIGINALLY (adverb)
  The adverb ORIGINALLY has 3 senses:

1. in an original manner

2. with reference to the origin or beginning

3. before now

  Familiarity information: ORIGINALLY used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORIGINALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an original manner

Pertainym:

original (being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With reference to the origin or beginning

Synonyms:

in the beginning; originally; primitively

Sense 3

Meaning:

Before now

Synonyms:

earlier; in the beginning; in the first place; originally; to begin with

Context example:

why didn't you tell me in the first place?

 Context examples 

Specifies whether the entity is represented as originally collected.

(As Collected Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

Originally identified as a cellular transcription factor that binds the enhancer region of SV40.

(AP-2 Family Transcription Factor, NCI Thesaurus)

A monocyclic beta-lactam antibiotic originally isolated from Chromobacterium violaceum with bactericidal activity.

(Aztreonam, NCI Thesaurus)

B. faecis was originally isolated from human feces.

(Bacteroides faecis, NCI Thesaurus)

Although originally thought to exhibit specific cytotoxicity against melanoma cells, this agent has been found to be cytotoxic against non-melanoma tumor cell types including neuroectodermal and brain tumor cells.

(Betulinic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Antineoplaston A10 was originally isolated from human urine but is now synthetically derived.

(Antineoplaston A10, NCI Thesaurus)

ESPRESSO — the Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations — was originally designed to hunt for Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars.

(ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron, ESO)

The researchers adapted a diagnostic test originally developed for prion diseases to detect abnormal clusters of tau protein.

(New test detects protein associated with Alzheimer’s and CTE, National Institutes of Health)

Ultimately, the atoms in a large galaxy, like those around us, could have originally come from up to a million light-years away.

(Half Our Body's Atoms Could Have Come from Outside The Galaxy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The star was originally misclassified in the TESS database as being more similar to our Sun, which meant the planets appeared larger and hotter than they really are.

(NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World, NASA)