Definition
In general; most often.
In Context
- "We go fishing every Sunday as a rule, but today the lake is frozen."
- "His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…]."
- "As a rule, single sentences should not be written or printed as paragraphs. An exception may be made of sentences of transition, indicating the relation between the parts of an exposition or argument."
Also Said As
- by and large
- chiefly
- for the most part
- mostly
- usually