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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fortunately
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We were late getting to the airport, but fortunately our plane was delayed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ About five weeks ago there was a very nasty accident, fortunately nobody was injured, unlike this time.
▪ Haute couture, fortunately, is simply called couture.
▪ The success of Beauty and the Beast was fortunately timed.
▪ They were fortunately innocent of the fact that Monet charged them some 60 percent more than he charged his fellow countrymen.
▪ We were not, fortunately, asked to watch each other but only to get involved in our own scenario.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fortunately

Fortunately \For"tu*nate*ly\, adv. In a fortunate manner; luckily; successfully; happily.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fortunately

"by (good) fortune," 1540s, from fortunate + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
fortunately

adv. In a fortunate manner.

WordNet
fortunately

adv. by good fortune; "fortunately the weather was good" [syn: fortuitously, luckily, as luck would have it] [ant: unfortunately, unfortunately]

Usage examples of "fortunately".

Fortunately Agata has succeeded in saving her from being forced to marry at twelve as her husband wanted.

Fortunately, treated Haluk individuals who had reverted to the testudomorph state did emerge from their chrysalids as healthy allomorphic graciles.

Fortunately Francesca was a great fan of Elvira Montalban, the Argentinean author whose career I had in a sense invented.

But, fortunately, I am now an arhat, while Sariputra here is unusually close to enlightenment.

Fortunately the shore was near at hand, for Madam Rothsay was ready to sink from exhaustion as they reached it.

Fortunately, they were at the very back of the hotel and they ended up going out the window.

Fortunately, the wind carried the flame and sparks away from the tavern and barns, or the whole establishment might have burned down.

Fortunately, if all Kwan wanted was to be rid of him, Batu thought that he could salvage a respectable death from his predicament.

Fortunately, except for a circle of beachboys and hotel guests who were seated around a small fire about two hundred feet away, the beach was vacant.

Fortunately the world seemed to take its proper form by the time the sun was a little above the bell towers, or Bertillon would likely have slept alone for the rest of his years.

My gasp must have been audible, but fortunately W H Smith had just spilled a piece of chicken cacciatore down his trousers and was otherwise occupied.

Fortunately there was no one about just then, and the three travellers were out of sight before the cartman and his wife had an opportunity of telling any one about the foreigners whom they had seen disguised as Chinamen.

Fortunately, however, we have in the deposits of ashes which were thrown out at the time of this great eruption some basis for interpreting the events which took place.

I stayed there just three days, and then, fortunately, the chief despatcher ordered me to come to his office.

Indeed, had it not been for the mental notes that I had fortunately taken of the shape of various rocks, I am sure that we never should have managed it at all, but have wandered about in the dreadful womb of the volcano--for I suppose it must once have been something of the sort--until we died of exhaustion and despair.