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continually

/kənˈtɪnjuːəli/kuhn-TIN-yoo-uh-lee
/kənˈtɪnjuəli/kuhn-TIN-yoo-uh-lee

Meaningagain and again without stopping

Common meaning: very often or all the time

Journey through time

  1. Latincontinuaresource
  2. Frenchcontinuersource
  3. Middle Englishcontinuensource
  4. Englishcontinue‘to go on’
  5. Englishformed in English from continuecontinual‘happening again and again’
  6. Englishformed in English from continualcontinually‘very often or all the time’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Formed in English from continual + -ly.

Dictionary: Skeat (1898), CONTINUE, p.132 · scan

Source words

  • continuare Latin · source word “to make continuous”

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