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Are the words yesterday, today, and tomorrow adverbs or nouns? Oxford Living Dictionaries identifies all three words as an adverb first and a noun second. Etymonline lists yesterday as a noun and adverb but today and tomorrow as only adverbs

Take, for example, the following noun phrases: The numeral 1 and indefinite article a are singular, denoting the noun degree as singular. A singular determiner cannot precede a plural noun as in *one children and a singular pronoun cannot replace a plural noun phrase. (not one, plural) The meanings of I have no cat and I have no cats differ because of the use of the singular versus the plural. The number of the noun cat is encoded only in the noun (cat versus cat), not the determiner.

<thauma> “wonder, astonishment, thing to look at, miracle,” from Greek thauma (genitive thaumatos), literally “a thing to look at,” from root of theater thauma: wonder, astonishment, thing to look at, miracle -s: forming plural of nouns ne: new -o-: connecting vowel -ous: characterized by, of the nature of trope: thing that spins vore: eat, consume thauma: wonder, miracle thaumas: plural of thauma thaumatrope: (noun) toy made of a card with an image on each side in which the images combine when twirled thaumatropes: plural of thaumatrope thaumavore: (noun) animal or lifeform that feeds off of magic or magical energy as the main part of its diet thaumavores: plural of thaumavore thaumavorous: (adjective) of or relating to thaumavores neothauma: species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae neothaumas: plural of neothauma

<thaumate> “wonder, astonishment, thing to look at, miracle,” from Greek thauma (genitive thaumatos), literally “a thing to look at,” from root of theater Thaumate + ic = thaumatic Thaumate + in = thaumatin Thaumate + in + Thaumate + Urge + ist = thaumaturgist Thaumate + Urge + ist + Thaumate + o + Log(e) + ist = thaumatologist Thaumate + o + Log(e) + ist + s = thaumatologists (noun) performer of thaumaturgy; performer of miracles; magician; worker of wonders or miracles thaumaturges: plural of thaumaturge thaumaturgy: (noun) working of miracles; magic, witchcraft, wizardry; capability of a magician or a saint to work magic or miracles; use of magic for non-religious purposes thaumaturgies: plural of thaumaturgy thaumaturgist: (noun) variation of thaumaturge thaumaturgists: plural of thaumaturgist thaumaturgus: (noun) obsolete variation of thaumaturge thaumaturguses: plural of thaumaturgus thaumaturgi: plural of thaumaturgus thaumaturgic: (adjective) magical, relating to thaumaturgy; performing miracles thaumaturgics: (noun) magical performances thaumaturgical: (adjective) having, brought about by, or relating to supernatural powers or magic thaumatology: (noun) study of miracles thaumatologist: (noun) one who studies thaumatology thaumatologists: plural of thaumatologist thaumatogeny: (noun) origination of life by a miracle rather than by natural law thaumatograph: (noun) proper noun used in the name of a projector from 1914 thaumatography: (noun) description of natural wonders, dissertation on the wonders of nature thaumatographic: (adjective) of or relating to thaumatograph thaumatolatry: (noun) worship or undue admiration of wonderful or miraculous things