Question

What is the meaning of the word "the"? Is it a noun or verb or what?

Answer 1

Answer:

Its neither verb nor a  noun its a definite article

Explanation:

definite article

• (used, especially before a noun, with a specifying or particularizing effect, as opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of the indefinite article a or an):

• the book you gave me; Come into the house.

• (used to mark a proper noun, natural phenomenon, ship, building, time, point of the compass, branch of endeavor, or field of study as something well-known or unique):

• the sun; the Alps; the Queen Elizabeth; the past; the West.

        (used with or as part of a title):

the Duke of Wellington; the Reverend John Smith.

(used to mark a noun as indicating the best-known, most approved, most important, most satisfying, etc.):

the skiing center of the U.S.; If you're going to work hard, now is the time.

(used to mark a noun as being used generically):

The dog is a quadruped.

(used in place of a possessive pronoun, to note a part of the body or a personal belonging):

He won't be able to play football until the leg mends