'literally meaning' is considered correct and is commonly used in written English.
"The phrase 'under the weather' literally meaning 'not feeling well' is said to have originated in the early 1900s."
"Gadar" means sheep, so their land is informally referred to as "Gadaran", literally meaning "sheep country".
Etrog is an Aramaic word literally meaning "delightful".
Ms Li is known colloquially in Chinese as a heihu, literally meaning "black hukou".
This led to the Modern English "Tuesday" literally meaning the "day of Zio".
Its origin is French – laque en écailles – literally meaning lac in thin plates.
It may be trite, but the word novel - literally meaning new - implies nothing of the sort.
Literally meaning 'altered reactivity', the term was coined in 1906 by Austrian paediatrician Clemens von Pirquet, to describe the fundamentally mutable nature of the immune response.
The pithy form — literally meaning a "definition" or "distinction" — has been around since Hippocrates, he of the Hippocratic Oath.
Atelectasis, derived from the Greek words atelēs and ektasis, literally meaning "incomplete expansion" in reference to the lungs.
Literally meaning "South of the Yun," it denotes the location as south of the Yun Range (Yun Ling, "Cloudy Mountains").
Tian, often translated as "heaven" and literally meaning "sky," is a term that refers to multiple concepts, often simultaneously.
