Take the tour ×  I know there are several parts of speech:    •
Noun   • Verb   • Pronoun   • Adjective   • Adverb   •
Preposition   • Conjunction   • Interjection  There might be
others as well. Sometimes a word, depending on how it is used,
can fulfill more than one of these classes. For example, the
word "run" can be a verb:  I run fast.  or it can be a noun:
Let's go for a run!  What word, taking into account all its
definitions, can fulfill the most word classes?  share|improve
this question Not exactly addressing OP's "word class" issue,
but I've always understood that in most English dictionaries the
definitions for set occupy more pages than any other word. To be
honest, I don't see much of interest in this "maximum word class
applicability" shootout, especially with "pronouns" included in
the possible classes. Does anything useable as a pronoun
automatically get another point for also being a noun? – 
FumbleFingers Oct 25 '11 at 17:05 Just to be pedantic, rather
than "word classes" you should say "p