equally

English

Alternative forms

• æqually (archaic)

Etymology

From equal +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːkwəli/
• (dialectal, archaic) IPA^(key): /ˈiːkəli/

• Audio (US):

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Adverb

equally (comparative more equally, superlative most equally)

1. (manner) In an equal manner; in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; evenly

   All citizens are equally taxed.

   The pie was divided equally among the guests.

   They shared equally in the spoils.

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:

     And when their ſcattered armie is ſubdu’d:
     And you march on their ſlaughtered carkaſſes,
     Share equally the gold that bought their liues,
     And liue like Gentlmen in Perſea, […]

2. (degree) In equal degree or extent; just as.

   The gas stations are equally far from the highway.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 58–59:

     The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. […] Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.

3. (conjunctive) Used to link two or more coordinate elements

   John suffered setbacks at his job. Equally, Frank's business slowed.

Derived terms

• equally as
• semi-equally

 

Translations

in an equal manner

• Albanian: barabar (sq)
• Arabic: بِالتَّسَاوِي (bi-t-tasāwī)
• Bulgarian: еднакво (bg) (ednakvo), по равно (po ravno)
• Catalan: igualment (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一樣地／一样地 (zh) (yīyàng de), 同樣地／同样地 (zh) (tóngyàng de), 平等地 (zh) (píngděng de)

• Czech: stejně (cs)
• Dutch: even (nl), gelijk (nl), gelijkelijk (nl), gelijkmatig (nl)
• Esperanto: same (eo), egale
• Finnish: yhtäläisesti, samalla tavoin
• French: également (fr)
• Galician: igualmente
• German: gleichermaßen (de), gleich (de), gleichmäßig (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ὁμῶς (homôs)

• Hungarian: egyenlően (hu)
• Italian: altrettanto (it), parimenti (it)
• Japanese: 等しく (ja) (hitoshiku), 平等に (ja) (byōdō ni), 均等に (ja) (kintō ni)
• Latin: aequē, aequāliter, pariter
• Latvian: vienlīdz
• Macedonian: еднакво (ednakvo)
• Norman: êgalement
• Portuguese: igualmente (pt)
• Romanian: egal (ro), în mod egal
• Russian: одина́ково (ru) (odinákovo), по́ровну (ru) (pórovnu) (in equal parts)
• Spanish: igualmente (es)
• Swedish: jämlikt (sv)
• Telugu: సమానముగా (te) (samānamugā)
• Tocharian B: aṅkānmi