25,000 people die every day due to starvation.
2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Formerly \For"mer*ly\, adverb In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

formerly

adverb: at a previous time; "once he loved her"; "her erstwhile writing" [syn: {once}, {at one time}, {erstwhile}, {erst}]
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