Adverbs

"Adverbs" is a plural of: adverb.

Date "Adverbs" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)

Specialty Definition: Adverbs

Domain	Definition
Tips from 1870	Usage: Adverbs. The clearness of the sentence is often dependent upon the proper placing of the adverb. No absolute rule can be laid down, but it should generally be placed before the word it qualifies. It is sometimes necessary to place it after the verb, and occasionally between the auxiliary and the verb, but it should never come between to and the infinitive. "I have thought of marrying often." As the adverb relates to the thinking, and not to the marrying, the sentence should read, "I have often thought of marrying." "We have often occasion to speak of health." This should be, "We often have occasion," etc, "It remains then undecided whether we shall go to Newport or Saratoga." Place undecided before then. Source: Slips of Speech.
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Crosswords: Adverbs

English words defined with "Adverbs": -er, -est ♦ less ♦ -ly ♦ more ♦ Orthotone ♦ Right honorable ♦ Than, to a greater extent, to a lesser extent, To be beside one's self ♦ Y-. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Adverbs": Adverbs for Relative Pronouns ♦ Except ♦ From hence ♦ OT ♦ Right. (references)

Etymologies containing "Adverbs": Adays. (references)

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Modern Usage: Adverbs

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Nouns, adverbs, adjective here and there. (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;)
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Commercial Usage: Adverbs

Domain	Title
Books	LY or zero suffix?: A study in variation of dual-form adverbs in present-day English: Volume 1 - Overview - Volume 2: Adverbial profiles (reference) Adverbs of Quantification: A Generalized Quantifier Approach (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics) (reference) Adverbs and comparatives : an analytical bibliography (reference) Acquisition of the Syntactic Category Adverb Evidence from the Second Language Learners Written Use of English Adverbs (Acquisition, 87304) (reference) Grammar of the Mexican Language: With an Explanation of Its Adverbs (1645) (Nahuatl Series, No. 7.) (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Adverbs

"Adverbs" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 97.06% of the time. "Adverbs" is used about 68 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	97.06%	66	41,290
Lexical Verb (-s form)	1.47%	1	339,140
Noun (proper)	1.47%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	68	N/A

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Modern Translation: Adverbs

Language		Translations for "Adverbs"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		Adverben. (various references)

Pig Latin		adverbsay.(various references)

Portuguese		advérbios. (various references)

Russian		ограничительные наречия (restrictive adverbs), наречия следствия (illative adverbs). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Adverbs

Misspellings
	"Adverbs" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abverb, adveb, adver, adverbe, advers. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Adverbs"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Adverbs" (pronounced a"dverbz)
4	-v er b z	proverbs.
3	-er b z	suburbs.
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Anagrams: Adverbs

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-r-s-v"
	-1 letter: adverb, ardebs, bardes, beards, braved, braves, breads, debars, sabred, serdab.
	-2 letters: ardeb, avers, barde, bards, bared, bares, based, baser, beads, beard, bears, brads, braes, brave, bread, darbs, dares, dears, debar, devas, drabs, drave, rased, raved, raves, reads, sabed, saber, sabre, saved, saver, verbs.
	-3 letters: abed, arbs, ares, arse, aver, aves, bade, bads, bard.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-r-s-v"
	+2 letters: bravadoes.
	+3 letters: adverbials, boulevards, cabdrivers.
	+4 letters: disprovable, weaverbirds.
	+5 letters: beaverboards, deverbatives, discoverable.
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