Timeline for What word describes words that can be more that one part of speech?
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| Sep 9, 2018 at 21:21 | comment | added | Eddie Kal | @Astralbee Yep, just "quiet". TIL: when making a comment at the bottom of a really long page, I better scroll up to double-check. I misremembered that the OP had fast down as adjective and adverb. In fact, they meant noun and adjective, while writing down noun and adverb. Just fixed the question. | |
| Sep 9, 2018 at 12:14 | comment | added | Astralbee | @EddieKal The two examples of "fast" given by the OP are not polysemes as they have entirely different meanings, and possibly even have entirely different roots. | |
| Sep 8, 2018 at 21:29 | history | edited | Astralbee | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 8, 2018 at 13:50 | comment | added | Eddie Kal | Strictly speaking, fast and quiet in the OP's examples are polysemes, not really homonyms sensu stricto. That being said, sometimes polysemes are also referred to as polysemous homonyms. | |
| Sep 8, 2018 at 12:37 | comment | added | BillJ | That's not what the OP asked about. They wanted to know about words that belong to more than one part of speech. | |
| Sep 8, 2018 at 11:08 | history | edited | Astralbee | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 8, 2018 at 11:00 | history | edited | Astralbee | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 8, 2018 at 10:52 | history | answered | Astralbee | CC BY-SA 4.0 |