Word endings and grammatical labels

When a word takes endings to indicate grammatical functions (called inflections), the endings are listed with the main entry, sometimes in boldface as with -garded, -garding, and -gards in the sample print entry.

Labels for the parts of speech and for other grammatical terms are sometimes abbreviated, as they are in the print entry. The most commonly used abbreviations are these:

n.

noun

adj.

adjective

pl.

plural

adv.

adverb

sing.

singular

pron.

pronoun

v.

verb

prep.

preposition

tr.

transitive verb

conj.

conjunction

int.

intransitive verb

interj.

interjection