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单词 namely
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namelyadverb

uk/ˈneɪm.li/us/ˈneɪm.li/

C1 used when you want to give more detail or be more exact about something you have just said:

We need to get more teachers into the classrooms where they're most needed, namely in high poverty areas.
I learned an important lesson when I lost my job, namely that nothing is a hundred percent guaranteed.

More examples

  • I want you to know one thing, namely that if you run up debts, we will not pay them for you.
  • He was active in poorer parts of the church, namely in inner London and Manchester.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Particular and individual

  • be the very thing idiom
  • certain
  • esp
  • especially
  • head
  • individual
  • individualism
  • individualist
  • particular
  • particularity
  • peculiar
  • peculiarity
  • peculiarly
  • per capita
  • personal
  • pet
  • singly
  • specifically
  • the UN
  • to wit idiom

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namelyadverb [ not gradable ]

us/ˈneɪm·li/

to be specific:

He suggested that these so-called contributions are something else, namely taxes.
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