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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
presumably
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
mean
▪ This presumably means that leave must be sought to file a supplementary statement where any time limit for filing evidence has expired.
▪ But to provide highlights without at least some explanation is equally so, since they are presumably meant to serve as introductions.
▪ Since it presumably means we will not for some time to come be seeing her again stretched horizontal on a sun lounger.
▪ That presumably meant that she wouldn't feel it when her grip slipped.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Presumably he's going to come back and get this stuff.
▪ In the center of the photo is a tall, well-dressed woman - presumably the firm's boss.
▪ Several of the villagers disappeared, presumably killed by enemy soldiers.
▪ The audience hears the word so many times during the play that presumably they learn what it means if they didn't already know.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both were presumably tenants as Charles Ballinger still owned the mill up to the 1850s.
▪ Few women, presumably, would want to return to the assumptions on which the old system was based.
▪ If the cap fitted Irving, presumably he could wear it.
▪ In the discussion below, the obstacles are located within the occupation where presumably sociologists can solve them.
▪ Others that he signed presumably took less thought.
▪ The society that built Newgrange presumably used it for hundreds of years.
▪ This presumably involved the slitting of rolled plates into bars, these being converted into nail-rods.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Presumably

Presumably \Pre*sum"a*bly\, adv. In a presumable manner; by, or according to, presumption.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
presumably

1640s, "with presumption, without examination," from presumable + -ly (2). As a qualifier, "probably, as one would presume," from 1830.

Wiktionary
presumably

adv. Able to be sensibly presumed.

WordNet
presumably

adv. by reasonable assumption; "presumably, he missed the train" [syn: presumptively]

Usage examples of "presumably".

Here a party of passing Mamelucos fell into an ambuscade, and were hewn in pieces, presumably before the Lord.

Seeing it, he had trouble believing that the Anarch Peak lay on a makeshift bed inside, presumably with at least Dr.

They reported that during this time the Reverend Massey, previously the resident vicar, arrived and took his place, ready to depart with the handful of staff who remained, presumably, to close the building.

After a while I realised that men were trading off upon me, that a steady stream of new men was constantly arriving, presumably to replace the old as their reservoirs grew exhausted.

From the wall annunciators there poured out a staccato howl of static through which could be dimly heard an alien gobbling which was presumably the SRTT sound tape.

The Antik part, and a second sign that presumably gave the name of the proprietor, Nadasdi Gyula.

Then Denis Cayford came up on the intercom, asking if he should get out and put the fires out on the wing, presumably by going out through the astrodome and crawling along the wing like the V.

A swimming person, presumably gilled, screening something diffuse that makes the water green where it had been dark and that gives enough light that Bonny can see the drinks are in highboys and each colored red or blue.

Actually, I saw Brough coming away, presumably having just finished them.

Above them came a whirring noise, and Burl looked up to see the masts withdrawing into the building, their discs presumably left flat and directionless.

Healthy children, or children presumably without any symptoms of tuberculosis, were experimented upon in order to see whether a positive reaction could be obtained.

The usual linear formulae had been laid out in a mantric frame, presumably to reinforce the self-perpetuating bond, and it took her a moment to pick out the normal shape of the equation.

Presumably the matric tap had been heated by conduction from the hull.

Those Medusan locks presumably comprise the virtual individual which has moved this Innocent Eve hither and yon drroughout the world, fascinating her appointed victims and luring them to the acceptance of her fatal kisses.

Those Medusan locks presumably comprise the virtual individual which has moved this Innocent Eve hither and yon throughout the world, fascinating her appointed victims and luring them to the acceptance of her fatal kisses.