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📖 Определения и значения для слова mainly

📒 more than anything else; also used to talk about the most important reason for something

  • They eat mainly fruit and nuts.
  • ‘Where do you export to?’ ‘France, mainly.’
  • mainly because of something The population almost doubles in summer, mainly because of the jazz festival.

📒 in most cases; used to talk about the largest part of a group of people or things

  • Anorexia is an illness that occurs mainly in adolescents.
  • The people in the hotel were mainly foreign tourists.
  • Women generally earn less than men.
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