chiefly

Etymology
From ; equivalent to.

Adverb

 * 1)  Especially or primarily; above all.
 * 2)  Mainly or principally; almost entirely.
 * 1)  Mainly or principally; almost entirely.
 * 1)  Mainly or principally; almost entirely.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:above all
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:mostly

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Polish:
 * Spanish:, sobre todo, ,


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: غَالِبًا
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: pääosin, suurimmaksi osaksi,, etupäässä, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μάλιστα, ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πολύ
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, primært, for det meste
 * Occitan: principalament
 * Plautdietsch: hauptsechlich
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: mai ales, mai cu seamă,, în principal
 * Russian: more literary and official, в основно́м (mainly);  (especially); пе́рвоочерёдно rare, literary, в пе́рвую о́чередь (primarily, first and foremost)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Ukrainian:, , особли́во, в пе́ршу чергу́
 * Yiddish: דער עיקר

Adjective

 * 1) of or relating to a chief