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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A pronoun that introduces a relative clause and has reference to an antecedent, as who in the child who is wearing a hat or that in the house that you live in.

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  1. n. grammar A pronoun that introduces a relative clause and refers to an antecedent. Some words that can be used as interrogative pronouns can alternatively be used as relative pronouns: what, which, who, whom, and whose. The other relative pronouns are whoever, whosoever, whomever, whatever, and that.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a pronoun (as `that' or `which' or `who') that introduces a relative clause referring to some antecedent

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  1. who
  2. what
  3. antecedent
  1. all
  2. rel. pron
  3. relative
  1. which
  2. he
  3. double genitive
  1. that
  2. relative pronoun
  3. relative clause
  1. one
  2. therefore
  3. where

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  • reesetee *afraid to check out telofy's library* Oct 2, 2008

  • Telofy I've got a whole book exclusively about the relative pronoun (in Latin)! *boast* ^^ Oct 1, 2008

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