originally
/əˈrɪdʒənəli/
adverb
- At first; in the beginning, before changes were made.
- The building was originally a school, but now it is a museum.
- I originally planned to travel by train, but I ended up driving.
- The recipe originally came from Italy.
- In a way that is new and not copied from something else; creatively.
- She solved the problem originally, using a method no one had tried before.
- The writer's ideas were originally expressed in a series of poems.
- The artist thought originally and created a unique style of painting.
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