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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary ad·verb \\ˈad-ˌvərb\\ noun ETYMOLOGY Middle English adverbe, from Middle French, from Latin adverbium, from ad- + verbum word — more at word
DATE 14th century
: a word belonging to one of the major form classes in any of numerous languages, typically serving as a modifier of a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a preposition, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence, expressing some relation of manner or quality, place, time, degree, number, cause, opposition, affirmation, or denial, and in English also serving to connect and to express comment on clause content — compare adjunct , conjunct , disjunct adjective DATE 1879
: adverbial
adverb
early 15c., from L.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." Adverbial is from 1610s, "pertaining to adverbs;" earlier it meant "fond of using adverbs" (1590s).
Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English Oxford Collocations dictionary for students of Englishadverb
noun ADJ. interrogative, sentence ADVERB + VERB modify sth, qualify sth Adverbs qualify verbs. PHRASES an adverb of degree/manner/place/time Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 adverbad·verb / 5AdvE:b; NAmE -vE:rb / noun (grammar 语法) a word that adds more information about place, time, manner, cause or degree to a verb, an adjective, a phrase or another adverb 副词: In 'speak kindly', 'incredibly deep', 'just in time' and 'too quickly', 'kindly', 'incredibly', 'just' and 'too' are all adverbs. 在 speak kindly、incredibly deep、just in time 和 too quickly 四个短语中,kindly、incredibly、just 和 too 都是副词。 ⇨ see also sentence adverb • ad·ver·bial / Ad5vE:biEl; NAmE -5vE:rb- / adj.: 'Very quickly indeed' is an adverbial phrase. very quickly indeed 是副词短语。
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ad·verbI. \ˈadˌvərb, -ə̄b\ noun( -s) Etymology: Middle French adverbe, from Latin adverbium (translation of Greek epirrhēma, literally, that which is said afterwards), from ad- + -verbium (from verbum word, verb) — more at epirrhema , word 1. : a word belonging to one of the major form classes in any of a great many languages typically used as a modifier of a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a preposition, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence and typically expressing some relation of manner or quality (as well in “she sings well”, surprisingly in “surprisingly slow”), place (as here in “sit here”), time (as now in “now under consideration”), degree (as too in “too hastily”, rather in “rather near us”), number (as triply in “triply bound”), cause (as therefore in “therefore the statement is true”), opposition (as however in “if however this proves impossible”), affirmation (as certainly in “he certainly did”), or denial (as not in “he did not”), sometimes having degrees of comparison expressed by affixation (as soon, sooner, soonest), suppletion (as well, better, best), or periphrasis (as happily, more happily, most happily) but otherwise uninflected, and frequently formed with a characteristic derivative affix (as -ward, -wards in “homeward”, “homewards”, -wise in “clockwise”, and -ly in “aptly”), this last being especially frequent since it is the principal means of forming adverbs from adjectives 2. adverbs plural but singular or plural in construction : a game whose object is to guess an adverb by interpreting verbal or pantomimic answers given in the manner of the adverb chosen II. adjective: of or belonging to an adverb : functioning as an adverb usually by modifying a verb or adjective < an adverb phrase > < an adverb clause >
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