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eventually

e·ven·tu·al·ly

eventually

 
 
pronunciation:
ih ven chu li
part of speech: adverb
definition: If the bus picked you up eventually, it means that the bus finally picked you up after you waited a while. In the end, the bus came and picked you up. If your family is going to get a new car eventually, you can be sure that you will get a new car, but you cannot know exactly when it will happen. It will happen after some time passes.
I told my mom I would pick up my clothes eventually, but she said I needed to pick them up NOW.Children grow up eventually, just like puppies eventually become adult dogs.We wondered where Brian was, but eventually we realized that he just wasn't coming.
synonyms:
finally, sometime