• (America) IPA: /ˈɔɹdɚli/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈɔːdəli/

orderly

1. Neat and tidy; possessing order.

   He has always kept an orderly kitchen, with nothing out of place.

2. Methodical or systematic.

   We live in an orderly universe, where rules govern both the movements of planets and the binding of molecules.

3. Peaceful; well-behaved.

   An orderly gathering of citizens stood on the corner awaiting the bus.

4. Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.
   • 1814 July 6, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. In Three Volumes, volume (please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 270129598 ↗:

• (possessing order) regular, trim, well-kept; see also Thesaurus:orderly
• (methodical or systematic) See also Thesaurus:methodical

• French: ordonné
• German: ordentlich
• Italian: ordinato
• Russian: опря́тный
• Spanish: ordenado

• German: ordentlich
• Russian: упоря́доченный
• Spanish: metódico

• German: ordentlich
• Russian: споко́йный
• Spanish: pacífico

orderly (plural orderlies)

1. A hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties.
2. A soldier who carries out minor tasks for a superior officer.

• German: Pflegehelfer
• Portuguese: servente
• Russian: санита́р
• Spanish: camillero

• French: planton
• German: Sanitätssoldat (medical), Sanitätssoldatin (medical)
• Italian: attendente
• Russian: ордина́рец

orderly

1. (now, rare) According to good order or practice; appropriately, in a well-behaved or orderly way. [from 15th c.]
   • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:

     You are blunt; go to it orderly.

   • 1991, Chor-San Heng Khoo, Physics of Liquid Crystalline Materials, CRC Press (ISBN 9782881244810), page 33:

     Phase R: the rods are linked three by three and form planar twodimensional hexagonal networks. In both cases, the networks are orderly stacked in a three-dimensional lattice.

   • 2014, Huei-Huang Lee, Finite Element Simulations with ANSYS Workbench 15: Theory, Applications, Case Studies, SDC Publications (ISBN 9781585039074), page 191:

     The rectangles are orderly stacked with the topmost rectangle representing the most visible entity and subsequent rectangles representing entities underneath the mouse cursor, front to back.

2. (obsolete) In order; in a particular order or succession; with a suitable arrangement. [15th-19th c.]
   • 1567, Arthur Golding, translating Ovid, Metamorphoses, I:

     The earth from heaven, the sea from earth, he parted orderly, / And from the thicke and foggie ayre, he tooke the lightsome skie.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     Thus orderly marshaled, they take their course and swim whither their journey tends, as broad and wide behind as before […].

   • 1624, John Smith (explorer), Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p.149:

     And in the Tombe which is an arch made of mats, they lay them orderly.

• (in order) methodically, systematically; see also Thesaurus:methodically