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ad·verb

–noun Grammar.

any member of a class of words that in many languages are distinguished in form, as partly in English by the ending -ly, or by functioning as modifiers of verbs or clauses, and in some languages, as Latin and English, also as modifiers of adjectives or other adverbs or adverbial phrases, as very, well, quickly. Adverbs typically express some relation of place, time, manner, attendant circumstance, degree, cause, inference, result, condition, exception, concession, purpose, or means.

[Origin: 1520–30; < L adverbium, equiv. to ad- ad- + verb(um) word, verb + -ium -ium; calque of Gk epírrhéma

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—Related forms

ad·verb·less, adjective

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ad·verb Audio Help (ād'vûrb) Pronunciation Key
n. Abbr. adv.

The part of speech that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as so, very, and rapidly.

[Middle English adverbe, from Old French, from Latin adverbium (translation of Greek epirrhēma) : ad-, in relation to; see ad- + verbum, word, verb; see wer-⁵ in Indo-European roots.]

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adverb

c.1425, from L. adverbium "adverb," lit. "that which is added to a verb," from ad- "to" + verbum "verb, word" (see verb). Coined by Flavius Sosipater Charisius to transl. Gk. epirrhema "adverb," from epi- "upon, on" + rhema "verb."

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adverb
noun
1.	the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses
2.	a word that modifies something other than a noun

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version) - Cite This Source - Share This
adverb [ˈӕdvəːb] noun

a word used before or after a verb, before an adjective or preposition, or with another adverb to show time, manner, place, degree etc
Example: Yesterday he looked more carefully in the box, and there he found a very small key with a hole right through it.

Arabic:	ظَرْف مَكَان أو زَمَان، حَال
Chinese (Simplified):	副词
Chinese (Traditional):	副詞
Czech:	příslovce
Danish:	adverbium; biord
Dutch:	bijwoord
Estonian:	adverb
Finnish:	adverbi
French:	adverbe
German:	das Adverb
Greek:	επίρρημα (γραμμ.)
Hungarian:	határozó(szó)
Icelandic:	atviksorð
Indonesian:	adverbia
Italian:	avverbio

Japanese:	副詞
Korean:	부사
Latvian:	apstākļa vārds
Lithuanian:	prieveiksmis
Norwegian:	adverb
Polish:	przysłówek
Portuguese (Brazil):	advérbio
Portuguese (Portugal):	advérbio
Romanian:	adverb
Russian:	наречие
Slovak:	príslovka
Slovenian:	prislov
Spanish:	adverbio
Swedish:	adverb
Turkish:	zarf

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
adverb

A part of speech that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Adverbs usually answer such questions as “How?” “Where?” “When?” or “To what degree?” The following italicized words are adverbs: “He ran well”; “She ran very well”; “The mayor is highly capable.”

Note: Adverbs are often formed by adding -ly to an adjective, as in truly or deeply.

[Chapter:] Conventions of Written English

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