Definition of "famously" []

• In a way or to an extent that is well known: "his famously neurotic mannerisms [are] lampooned in the novels of Evelyn Waugh” ( James Atlas). (adverb)
• With the result of becoming famous: "Frost had famously declared that poetry is what gets lost in translation” ( David Lehman). (adverb)
• Excellently; splendidly: We got along famously. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The label famously turned down the chance to sign the Fab Four in 1962, pronouncing that guitar bands were going out of fashion."
• "Boies made his name famously defending IBM against the Justice Department and then later helping the Justice Department prosecute Microsoft."
• "McDonnell is scrambling to put the issue behind him, lest it become his "macaca" -- the term famously used by Allen to describe a young man of Indian descent at a campaign event when he was running for reelection to the U.S. S.nate in 2006."