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# predominantly

«predominantly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Mostly; mainly; for the greatest part** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (predominantly — formal)

### meaning for a pupil

(formal) Mostly; mainly; for the greatest part. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predominantly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography, science and exam writing it summarises data: a region is predominantly forest; the class is predominantly girls. It tells the reader that most, but not all, of something is like this. In maths problems it hints at more than half.

### examples

- The forest is predominantly made up of pine trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predominantly/#x1)
- The town is predominantly English-speaking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predominantly/#x2)
- Koalas eat predominantly eucalyptus leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predominantly/#x3)
- The weather in Ireland is predominantly mild and wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predominantly/#x4)
- Our class is predominantly made up of nine-year-olds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predominantly/#x5)
- The book is predominantly about friendship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predominantly/#x6)

### note

Formal; in everyday talk say mostly or mainly. Adjective: predominant. Spelling: pre-dom-in-ant-ly. In numbers, it means more than half, usually much more, but not all.

### Trees and pragmatics

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