1 after a long time, especially when there has been some difficulty or delay:
The performance finally started half an hour late. * The law was finally passed in May 1999. * I finally managed to get her attention. * Are you finally going to tell me why I'm here? * When they finally arrived it was well past midnight.
2 used to introduce the last in a list of things:
And finally, I would like to thank you all for coming here today. * Finally, stir in the fruit and walnuts.
3 in a way that ends all discussion about sth:
The matter was not finally settled until much later.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for finally is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is finally a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, finally is tagged as adverb.
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