Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
who and what.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- pronoun The possessive case of
who orwhich . Seewho , andwhich .
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- pronoun Of
whom , belonging towhom ; used as an interrogative pronoun. - pronoun Of
whom , belonging towhom ; used as a relative pronoun. - pronoun Of
which , belonging towhich ; used as a relative pronoun.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the conjoint relation plain whose is always used, as in whose hat is that?
Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 4. The Pronoun Henry Louis 1921
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The horse in the light of an useful beast, fit for the plough, the road, the draft; in every social useful light, the horse has nothing sublime; but is it thus that we are affected with him, _whose neck is clothed with thunder, the glory of whose nostrils is terrible, who swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, neither believeth that it is the sound of the trumpet_?
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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A nation whose ships are shut out from every port, and whose* envoys are exel uded from every Cabinet! — a StatQ which has lost all political influence, which has not a single ally, which is, in short, reduced to carry on a smuggling trade with great squa - drons, as the only means which remains for enabling its merchants to get rid of a part of their merchandizes!
The Situation of Great Britain, in the Year 1811 Maurice Montgaillard , comte de Maurice Montgaillard 1812
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Money is trickling back to the labels: A label whose videos rack up 10 million streams on Vevo could collect around $70,000.
Beyond 'Thriller': Reinventing The Music Video John Jurgensen 2011
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No oracular revelations, though I did enjoy his definition of merchant banking, a term whose meaning had always eluded me.
The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns Alan C. Greenberg 2010
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No oracular revelations, though I did enjoy his definition of merchant banking, a term whose meaning had always eluded me.
The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns Alan C. Greenberg 2010
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It was oversized and it was utilitarian as you would expect from Acne - after all this is a label whose heart lies in the wearable and thus the covetable.
NYT > Home Page By ALISON S. COHN 2011
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A label whose status rested on the genius of a designer who died in 2010 has been transformed, in a few days, into the house that owns event-dressing in 2011.
The Guardian World News Jess Cartner-Morley 2011
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If there's anyone you'd want running a radio station then it's Domino Records, the label whose roster boasts everyone from Austra and Arctic Monkeys to Tricky and Robert Wyatt.
The Guardian World News guardian.co.uk/music 2011
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There are, it seems, still women prepared to pay €3,000 (£2,600) for a fox-trimmed suede skirt or €75 (£65) for a small milk jug, even from a label whose lustre could do with a polish.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
carolinacc commented on the word whose
Equivalent of spanish 'cuyo'
June 8, 2008
carolinacc commented on the word whose
Equivalent of spanish 'cuyo'
June 8, 2008