adverb

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(I think you meant that instead of an adverb, as an adverb is something that modifies a verb, adjective or other adverb)

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

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  • It's modified by an adverb, as Firsten points out.
  • You start with that adverb, and then you follow it with an adverbial clause, and then you follow all that with an adjective. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 02 - August 2003
  • Also used as an adverb, meaning formerly.: former morri029 about 13 hours ago —  Roll 'Bama Roll
  • Cupertino effect the small talk that often passes for conversation at work: phatic communion the trick of using a single adverb -- boosting comedian Stephen Colbert's way of closing his program by thanking "all the people who made this show possible -- thank you, Stephen Colbert": —  About.com Grammar & Composition
  • Absolutely in Webster's is an adverb, as is indicated by its "ly" ending, but as an adverb it only modifies other modifiers, like, "That point is absolutely critical to my argument." —  post-gazette.com - News
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  1. 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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  1. from French adverbe, from Latin adverbium, an adverb (a transitive of Greek έπίρρ ημα, an adverb, something additional to the predication), from ad, to, + verbum, a word, verb: see verb.
 

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/ˈædvərb/
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