What part of speech is scaffold?

Scaffold can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. scaffold is a verb, present, 1st person singular of scaffold (infinitive).
  • 2. scaffold is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. scaffold is a noun, singular of scaffolds.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does scaffold mean?

Definitions

Verb

scaffold - provide with a scaffold for support; "scaffold the building before painting it"

Noun

scaffold - a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
scaffold - a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)

Examples of scaffold

#   Sentence  
1. verb Scaffold the building before painting it.
2. noun Outside the town a great scaffold had been erected, and all round were standing the soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of people. The King and Queen were sitting on a magnificent throne opposite the judges and the whole council.
3. noun Tom got down from the scaffold.
Sentence  
verb
Scaffold the building before painting it.
noun
Outside the town a great scaffold had been erected, and all round were standing the soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of people. The King and Queen were sitting on a magnificent throne opposite the judges and the whole council.
Tom got down from the scaffold.

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