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1. (n.) adverb
a member of a class of words functioning as modifiers of verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, or clauses, as quickly, well, here, now, and very, typically expressing some relation of place, time, manner, degree, means, cause, result, exception, etc., and in many languages distinguished by form, as often in English by the ending -ly.
Etymology: (1520–30; < L adverbium=ad-ad - +verb(um) word, verb+-ium -ium1)
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1. (noun) adverb
the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses
2. (noun) adverb
a word that modifies something other than a noun
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1. (noun) adverb
a word that describes verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs
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1. (noun) adverb
a word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white
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Sense: a word used before or after a verb, before an adjective or preposition, or with another adverb to show time, manner, place, degree etc
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 Afrikaans: bywoord |
 Arabic: ظَرْف مَكَان أو زَمَان، ح |
 Bulgarian: наречие |
 Brazilian: advérbio |
 Czech: příslovce |
 German: das Adverb |
 Danish: adverbium; biord |
 Greek: επίρρημα (γραμμ.) |
 Spanish: adverbio |
 Estonian: adverb |
 Farsi: قید |
 Finnish: adverbi |
 French: adverbe |
 Hebrew: תוֹאָר הַפּוֹעַל |
 Hindi: क्रियाविशेषण |
 Croatian: prilog |
 Hungarian: határozó(szó) |
 Indonesian: adverbia |
 Icelandic: atviksorð |
 Italian: avverbio |
 Japanese: 副詞 |
 Korean: 부사 |
 Lithuanian: prieveiksmis |
 Latvian: apstākļa vārds |
 Malay: adverb |
 Dutch: bijwoord |
 Norwegian: adverb |
 Polish: przysłówek |
 Persian: قید |
 Pashto: قید |
 Portuguese: advérbio |
 Romanian: adverb |
 Russian: наречие |
 Slovak: príslovka |
 Slovenian: prislov |
 Serbian: prilog |
 Swedish: adverb |
 Thai: คำวิเศษณ์; คำกริยาวิเศษณ์ |
 Turkish: zarf |
 Taiwanese: 副詞 |
 Ukrainian: прислівник |
 Urdu: اسم ظرف |
 Vietnamese: phó từ |
 Chinese: 副词 |
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