EGAVE

namely

About 18.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adverb Specifically; that is to say.
    Some of the students — namely Paul, Alice and Jake — seem to have trouble with geometry.
  2. adverb Especially, above all.
  3. adjective Notable, distinguished; famous, renowned; well-known.

Similar words

videlicet that is to say particularly especially specific precisely exactly specifically that concrete

Often followed by

the that a to in those by of as an

Save “namely” to learn later