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| Definition - A word that modifies the meaning of a noun or a pronoun. |
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Example - The red truck (In the above, the word red is an adjective and the word truck is a noun. |
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Etymology - The word derives via Old French from the Latin adjectivum, that which is added. (from the Latin ad, to + jacere, to throw). |
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Oxford English Dictionary - Its first citation is from 1414: "Scotland is like a noun adjective that cannot stand without a substantive." (Dk. of Exeter to Henry IV in Hall Chron. (1809), 55) |