originallyo‧rig‧i‧nal‧ly /əˈrɪdʒɪnəli, -dʒənəli/ ●●● S2 W2 adverb 
Examples
The family originally came from France. The building was originally used as a prison. We originally intended to stay for just a few days.[sentence adverb] Originally, we had planned a tour of Scotland but we didn’t go in the end.
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Originally, they told me I was only going to work 35 hours a week.
- Jeanne's family originally came from Malaysia.
- They had originally planned to leave the children with a babysitter.
- Two hundred people showed up for the wedding, about 50 more than we originally planned.
- But this turns out to be another heated issue, far more complicated than I originally suspected.
- Founded in 1984, Egghead originally concentrated on the sale of software.
- He cooperated originally with jobbing photographers, none of whom proved satisfactory, so he reluctantly decided to undertake the task himself.
- I assent to the judgment proposed, though it is not that which I had originally thought proper.
- It had originally hoped to make some sort of announcement last month; but the practical complications have proved immense.
- Then Dole found his position reinforced by the failures of those who were seen originally as his most serious challengers.
Longman Language Activatorat the beginning► at the beginning/start
Collocations · At the start it looked as though Italy would win, but Argentina improved as the game went on.· She was nervous at the beginning but she settled down as she got further into her speech.at the beginning/start of · We pay our rent at the beginning of the month.· For homework tonight, start at the beginning of chapter three and read up to page 98.· At the start of the century, barely 3% of the population was literate.
► at first/initially use this to say what happened at the beginning, especially when something different happened later. Initially is more formal than at first: · Barney was quiet at first, but gradually he became more confident.· At first I didn't think Nancy and I would get along.· They offered her the job, initially on a temporary basis but later as a full member of the staff.
► to start with/to begin with especially spoken use this to talk about what happens at the beginning, especially when something different may happen later: · Our employees receive health benefits and $28,000 a year to start with.· Even children who are healthy to begin with wouldn't survive long in these terrible conditions.
► originally at the beginning - use this to talk about the situation at the time in the past when something first started: · Originally, they told me I was only going to work 35 hours a week.· Two hundred people showed up for the wedding, about 50 more than we originally planned.
► at the outset formal if something is known, believed, decided etc at the outset , it is known etc from the very earliest point in a period of time or activity: · Sylvia knew at the outset what her ultimate goals were.· It had been decided at the outset that Theresa would be our spokesperson.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► due
Word family· Equal, originally due in December, is now scheduled to ship in the second quarter.· The upgraded bombers were originally due to start becoming operational six years ago.
VERB► appear· Every great religion originally appeared as a response among people desperate for comfort and solace during troubling times.· Tony Ortega is a staff writer with the Phoenix New Times, where this story originally appeared.· The four sections of the book appeared originally in monthly issues of Cornhill Magazine from August to November 1860.· This article originally appeared in the Syracuse New Times.· This satire originally appeared in the on-line magazine Salon.
► build· But within the small tomb, originally built for some one else, was a wealth of treasure.· There is still a Fort Sheridan, which was built originally so that the Army could quickly march on a strike.· It was built originally by one of the old wool merchants, who wanted to establish his family as landed gentry.· These features which have been originally built into online systems to improve system performance are of considerable instructional value to searchers.· It was built originally by Theodoric, on basilican plan, as his Arian Cathedral.
► call· At John Ash & Company we originally called it a Sonoma summer tart, but that lacked pizzazz.
► come· The proposal for the Assembly came originally from Chaianan Samudavanij, a well known political scientist.· And as far as we know today, all life originally came from the seas, making the sea our Great Mother.· It came originally from my father, who employed the technique with great relief on many occasions.· The Finance Ministry originally came up with a plan in 1990 to reduce bond dependency to 5 percent.· In practice the latter method is preferred by most journalists because they can see from whom the information originally came.· Her family originally came from Govan, where her father and her grandfather worked in the shipyards.· The squatter settlements originally came into being through illegal land invasions.· Many of the Merchant Tribes came originally from Bristol.
► conceive· That is not the way Alma Cogan originally conceived her lyric.
► design· Built around the turn of the century, it had been designed originally as a soldiers' barracks.· Conventional wisdom did not favor retrofitting to coal use boilers originally designed for oil or natural gas.· The cell was originally designed to held around twenty inmates.· Furthermore it can permit coal use in boilers originally designed to burn oil without substantial derating.· Most health information systems were originally designed to support decision-making at national level.
► develop· The machine, which comes in seven standard configurations, was originally developed for in-house scientific research.· Scholes originally developed the theory working with Black, who died in 1995.· A fractal description originally developed by mathematician Michael Barnsley, has been adapted to digitally sampled audio.· The scale was originally developed to distinguish organic and functional mental disorders in a hospital population of older people.· In fact, many of the principles of feng shui were developed originally by farmers who were reacting to their natural world.· This work derives from the theory of dynamical systems which was originally developed by Anosov, Smale and others in the 1960s.
► envisage· The development was originally envisaged as a private enterprise initiative.· If the blocks were truly large, as Corb originally envisaged them, then they could become honeycombed hills.· Indeed George Stephenson originally envisaged the railway system as an extension of the colliery system.· The government probably went further down this road than it had originally envisaged.
► give· Thompson and Venables, now 17, were originally given eight-year minimum sentences in 1993.· For the first several hours, each mother remained silent while holding the baby she had been given originally.· The other seven would not have been elected without the contribution of transferred votes originally given to candidates of other parties.· In fact in my own descriptions I have deviated somewhat from those that Turing originally gave.· The argument for not considering the other 8,538 votes originally given to him is that they have exhausted their potential.· The censorship board originally gave it a certificate allowing it to be seen by over-16s.
► intend· She had originally intended to resell them but found she had grown attached to them and had built shelves in her sitting-room.· It was originally intended that couples would register their partnerships in local authority registry offices.· Ironically, the name may carry more meaning than originally intended.· The grave furniture was not all originally intended for Tutankhamun.· He'd bought this new sometime in the summer, and hadn't originally intended to work in it.· That's what I originally intended.· To its critics, it became a mild tabloid and a very pale imitation of what was originally intended.
► make· And jeans were originally made for manual labourers.· When claims were originally made concerning a cluster at Seascale it seemed quite possible that this was the explanation.· Balfour Beatty originally made the shortlist but decided against pricing it.· Minimalist works were originally made in the Sixties for loft spaces.· Mincemeat, for example, was originally made with minced meat and dried fruit.
► mean· Offered to allow them a kind of autonomy, Coffin knew it had been meant originally as a Traffic Inquiry Unit.· And that has worsened the overall ecological crisis that engine efficiency was originally meant to solve.· It originally meant the pledging of the coming rice crop to local loan sharks.· You can do your job and fail to achieve the results that your job was Originally meant to serve.
► plan· Work was originally planned to start on site in January.· It seemed ironic that at long last I was here, albeit by a very much more circuitous route than originally planned.· Here's what the show left out: The rebels originally planned to invade Ulster but bottled out.· So Mum told me she was going to leave me a bit more than she had originally planned.· Britain plans to order 230 aircraft, about 20 fewer than originally planned.· The play could now be tentatively scheduled for the Edinburgh Festival of 1953, one year later than Eliot had originally planned.· As it turns out, Bill Atkinson did not originally plan for a menu bar on top of the screen.
► propose· Einstein originally proposed a very small cosmological constant in the hope of balancing the tendency of matter to make the universe contract.· Nothing was said about confining such development to the laboratory, as Gorbachev had originally proposed in his letter to Reagan.· A relative index as originally proposed by Melville Dewey, contains at least one entry for each subject in the scheme.· Rosewater refers to the sample studied for the originally proposed Masochistic Personality Disorder.
► schedule· The match was originally scheduled for Leeds' Elland road ground.· The reports were originally scheduled for release today.· They were originally scheduled for publication as a book in 1941.· One Blue Button was originally scheduled for each dealing table.· Callas was originally scheduled, but withdrew and Nilsson stepped in at fairly short notice.· A number of the films now set for the next 2 months were originally scheduled for summer release.
► set· Lighting is by two Floraset mercury vapour lamps which were originally set on a timer to give 11 hours of light.· The Barrio Grill originally set up shop just over a year ago.· His bail was originally set at $ 100, 000.· Its weights were originally set to small random values.· Rather, they rely on a tripartite classification, originally set out by Braudel, to divide it into three distinct elements.· It was originally set up by Churchill, who wanted better statistics to manage the war economy.· Playgroups were originally set up to fill the gap until the Government started a network of nurseries countrywide.
► think· It was originally thought the contract could be given last year with work starting in late autumn.· How could Miguel help thinking that maybe the bonds of their friendship mattered more to Spider than he had originally thought?· Lawrence himself revealed today he had originally thought his broken kneecap would put him out of the game for ever.· Maddy and Patrick originally thought they would run an inn together, a perfect venue for the family-cantered.· His sensors must have been more badly damaged than he had originally thought.· I assent to the judgment proposed, though it is not that which I had originally thought proper.
► use· Hollow tree-trunks were originally used as drums while still standing.· The task originally used by Piaget to assess knowledge of seriation of length is a simple one.· This unavoidable routine is a whirlpool through which many an interesting outfit loses all they originally used to gain initial recognition.· Probably honey was used originally to sweeten the apples instead of sugar.· The company produced a program for handling files, using a technique which Barnard had originally used as the basis for Filetab.
► want· Miss Roybal-Allard originally wanted the ban to apply only to divorce, probate and child-custody cases.· The Inland Revenue originally wanted the machinery ring to be responsible for tax deductions for such workers.
► write· Some versions of a text convey better than others what the author originally wrote.· Applications written originally for Macintosh, like Excel and PageMaker, worked much the same on Windows.· It is probable that neither version of Doctor Faustus represents the play as originally written by Marlowe.· If it had published the full document as originally written, we would know that there are some real nasties in it.· Hiroshima was originally written for the New Yorker magazine, which devoted an entire issue to it in 1946.· Certainly, there were texts of some plays printed and obviously plays were originally written in some sense.· It was originally written in Hebrew, and therefore not for the perusal of the Gentiles.
WORD FAMILYnounoriginoriginaloriginalityoriginatoradjectiveoriginal ≠ unoriginalverboriginateadverboriginally
in the beginning, before other things happened or before things changed: The family originally came from France. The building was originally used as a prison. We originally intended to stay for just a few days.[sentence adverb] Originally, we had planned a tour of Scotland but we didn’t go in the end.