used to say that sth is likely to happen or to be true:
You're probably right. * It'll probably be OK. * It was the best known and probably the most popular of her songs. * 'Is he going to be there?' 'Probably.' * 'Do we need the car?' 'Probably not.' * As you probably know, I'm going to be changing jobs soon. * (written) The two cases are most probably connected.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for probably is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is probably a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, probably is tagged as adverb.
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