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# peculiarly

«peculiarly» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a strange or odd way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (peculiarly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a strange or odd way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peculiarly/#m1)

2) Especially or particularly, as in «peculiarly difficult». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peculiarly/#m2)

3) Belonging only to one group or place, as in «peculiarly British». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peculiarly/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it tells the reader something is not normal: in Wonderland everything behaves peculiarly, and Alice says things are getting «curiouser and curiouser». In everyday talk, «peculiarly British» means typical of Britain only.

### examples

- The cat was behaving peculiarly before the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peculiarly/#x1)
- It was a peculiarly hot day for April. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peculiarly/#x2)
- Alice thought the Duchess behaved most peculiarly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peculiarly/#x3)
- Queuing politely is said to be peculiarly British. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peculiarly/#x4)
- He was peculiarly quiet at dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peculiarly/#x5)
- The milk smelled peculiarly sour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peculiarly/#x6)
- They divided the life of Man among them, and each endowed one part of it with the qualities which were peculiarly his own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peculiarly/#x7)

### note

From «peculiar» (strange; or belonging to one only). Trap: peculiar does not always mean bad, sometimes just «special to».

### In the corpora

- [Tortoise practises putting his hind legs round his ears, which he calls «so peculiarly comfortable».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «peculiarly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peculiarly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.