Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See who and what.
Wiktionary
- pro. Of whom, belonging to whom; used as an interrogative pronoun.
- pro. Of whom, belonging to whom; used as a relative pronoun.
- pro. Of which, belonging to which; used as a relative pronoun.
GNU Webster's 1913
Etymologies
- Genitive of who, from Old English hwæs, the genitive of hwa, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis (Wiktionary)
- Middle English whos, from Old English hwæs. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In the conjoint relation plain whose is always used, as in whose hat is that?”
“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)
“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!”
Internet Archive: The Situation of Great Britain, in the Year 1811
“Money is trickling back to the labels: A label whose videos rack up 10 million streams on Vevo could collect around $70,000.”
The Wall Street Journal: Beyond 'Thriller': Reinventing The Music Video
“No oracular revelations, though I did enjoy his definition of merchant banking, a term whose meaning had always eluded me.”
“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
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Or another version of the word whose roots go back to the Indo-European for “animal hide” and whose worldwide storytelling future is assured in Global English.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whose’.
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
about, above, across, after, afterwards, again, against, all, almost, alone, along, already and 291 more...
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carolinacc's list
jettisoned, yearn, chrestomathy, catachresis, elation, gesundheit, ohne, tertium quid, iota, oscillation, argillous, flagrate and 67 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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wh pronounced as h
words that start with wh but pronounced as h (as in hand)
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2014 more...
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frequent toefl
Words that I do not know or unsure for toefl
appurtenances, aptitude, arbitrary, arboretum, argot, arrears, avocation, avuncular, badger, bait, warden, bane and 428 more...
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US - national anthem vocabulary
All words and phrases (except the most common articles and prepositions)
For a word frequency analysis see:
air, band, foe, banner, battle, battle's~confusion, beam, blest, blood, blow, bomb, brave and 174 more... -
"Q" words
words that inquire into the nature of things
cheese, who, whose, whom, what, why, which, when, whence, whither, where, whether and 56 more...
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the hatelist
words and phrases I hate.
( vomit, randomness )
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rajanibachchewar
detour, peculiar, replete, censure, criticize, malaise, cradle, rockers, procerity, demented, Goddard, disengage and 20 more...
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LIT - the 100 most common words of th...
Based on a frequency analysis
ages, already, away, become, bourgeois, bourgeoisie, capital, carried, character, class, commerce, commodity and 88 more...
Tweets
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carolinacc Equivalent of spanish 'cuyo' Jun 8, 2008
carolinacc Equivalent of spanish 'cuyo' Jun 8, 2008