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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