| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| adverb |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ad·verb |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   d vûrb |
| NOUN: | abbr. adv. 1. The part of speech that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb. 2. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as so, very, and rapidly. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English adverbe, from Old French, from Latin adverbium (translation of Greek epirrh ma) : ad-, in relation to; see ad– + verbum, word, verb; see wer-5 in Appendix I.
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