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    The meaning of DICTIONARY is a reference source in print or electronic form containing words usually alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, etymologies, meanings, and syntactic and idiomatic uses. How to use dictionary in a sentence.
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    What to Know. Names are proper nouns, which become plurals the same way that other nouns do: add the letter -s for most names ("the Johnsons," "the Websters") or add -es if the name ends in s or z ("the Joneses," "the Martinezes"). To show possession using an apostrophe, add 's for individuals ("Smith's car") and just the apostrophe after the s for plurals ("the ...
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    The meaning of ADVERB is 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 ...
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    Addition and edition are both nouns.Addition refers to something added, as in "new additions to the museum's collection" and "an addition to the house," as well as to the process of adding, as in "the addition of cream to the soup" and "math problems involving addition and subtraction." It's also the word used in phrases with in: "cookies in addition to the pie and cake."
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    What to Know. The forms of compounds (two words used together) in English are not fixed. Some terms have moved from being open compounds (base ball) to hyphenated (base-ball) to closed (baseball), a pattern that reflects familiarity and frequency of usage.Hyphens are often used when a compound modifies a noun ("sun-bleached curtains," "fire-roasted tomatoes") but not when -ly adverbs ...
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