adverb

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ad=verb

CIDE DICTIONARY

adverb, n. [L. adverbium; ad + verbum word, verb: cf. F. adverbe.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

adverb, n. a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies another word (esp. an adjective, verb, or other adverb) or a word-group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g. gently, quite, then, there).

Derivative

adverbial adj.

Etymology

F adverbe or L adverbium (as AD-, VERB)

THESAURUS

adverb

adjectival, adjective, adverbial, adversative conjunction, attributive, conjunction, conjunctive adverb, coordinating conjunction, copulative, copulative conjunction, correlative conjunction, disjunctive, disjunctive conjunction, exclamatory noun, form class, form word, function class, gerundive, interjection, part of speech, participle, particle, past participle, perfect participle, preposition, present participle, subordinating conjunction, verbal adjective