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Orderly

adjective

Devoid of violence or disruption. Antonym: disorderly.

Clean or organized. Synonym: neat. "A neat room"

noun

(pl. orderlies)

A soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer.

A male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients. Synonym: hospital attendant.

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"Orderly" Quotes from Famous Books

... the spook-men, Baas, the whole regiment of them." We ran and looked. It was true. Marshalled in orderly squadrons, the camels with their riders were sweeping towards us, and a fine sight the beasts made with their swaying necks and long, lurching gait. About fifty yards away they halted just where the stream from our spring entered the desert, and there proceeded to water the camels, twenty of them ...

— The Ivory Child • H. Rider Haggard

... so orderly as Frankfort, and in a station privileged from all the common hardships of poverty, it can hardly be expected that many incidents should arise, of much separate importance in themselves, to break the monotony of life; and the mind of Goethe was not contemplative ...

— Biographical Essays • Thomas de Quincey

... more than frequent little rows, which would get up a hatred between the soldiers and police and the people. They are now very good friends. The armed men are becoming popular and patriotic, and the unarmed, we trust, more orderly, hospitable, and kindly every day. Let us have no more tussling ...

— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis

... awakening of the whole personality has effects reaching much further than the oratorical occasion. The effort to marshal all one's reserves in a logical and orderly manner, to bring to the front all the power one possesses, leaves these reserves permanently better in hand, ...

— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

... representing for the most part the palmy days of the Romantics, though every here and there were intervening strata of naturalism, balanced in their turn by recurrent volumes of Sainte-Beuve. The whole had a studious air. The books were evidently collected with a purpose, and the piles of orderly MSS. lying on the writing-table seemed to sum up ...

— Miss Bretherton • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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