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orderly
/ˈɔɹdɚli/
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What does orderly mean?
adjective
- Neat and tidy; possessing order.
- Methodical or systematic.
- Peaceful; well-behaved.
More meanings (5)
adjective
- Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.
noun
- A hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties.
- A soldier who carries out minor tasks for a superior officer.
adverb
- (archaic) According to good order or practice; appropriately, in a well-behaved or orderly (adjective) way.
- (obsolete) In order; in a particular order or succession; with a suitable arrangement.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɔɹdɚli/
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But orderly to end where I begun, Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown.
Marion then dispatched his orderly to the guilty major, with a request, civilly worded, that he might see him at head quarters.
More book examples (3)
“I must have that purse, I tell you,” shouted Denísov, shaking his orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall.
In carrying themselves orderly and measuredly in the granting their last favours, they much more allure our desires and hide their own.
Phœbe wondered whose care and toil it could have been that had planted these vegetables, and kept the soil so clean and orderly.