Usually means: Previously known or referred as.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word formerly:

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  1. formerly: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. formerly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. formerly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. formerly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. formerly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Formerly, formerly: Wordnik
  7. formerly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. formerly: Wiktionary
  9. formerly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. formerly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. formerly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Formerly, formerly: Dictionary.com
  13. formerly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Formerly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. formerly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. formerly: Rhymezone
  17. formerly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. formerly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. formerly: Free Dictionary
  20. formerly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. formerly: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. formerly: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. formerly: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adverb:  at some time in the past
adverb:  previously; once

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