Dialectally

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a dialectal way.

    "[...] (though dialectally e.g. in Northern British English while is used like until in (71), so that ‘Iʼll wait while tomorrow afternoonʼ means ‘Iʼll wait until tomorrow afternoonʼ)."

Example

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"[...] (though dialectally e.g. in Northern British English while is used like until in (71), so that ‘Iʼll wait while tomorrow afternoonʼ means ‘Iʼll wait until tomorrow afternoonʼ)."

Etymology

From dialectal + -ly.

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