Usually means: To some extent, not completely.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word partly:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. partly: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. partly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. partly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. partly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. partly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Partly, partly: Wordnik
  7. partly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. partly: Wiktionary
  9. partly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. partly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. partly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Partly, partly: Dictionary.com
  13. partly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Partly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. partly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. partly: Rhymezone
  17. partly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. partly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. PARTLY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. partly: Free Dictionary
  21. partly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. partly: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. partly: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. partly: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. partly: Encyclopedia

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

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adverb:  In part, or to some degree, but not completely.

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