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Webster 1913 Edition


Whose

Whose

(hoōz)
,
p
ron.
[OE.
whos
,
whas
, AS.
hwæs
, gen. of
hwā
. See
Who
.]
The possessive case of who or which. See
Who
, and
Which
.
Whose
daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee.
Gen. xxiv. 23.
The question
whose
solution I require.
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Whose

WHOSE

, hooz. The possessive or genitive case of who or which; applied to persons or things. We say, the person whose merits are known; the garment whose color is admired.

Definition 2024


whose

whose

English

Pronoun

whose

  1. Of whom, belonging to whom; used as an interrogative pronoun.
    Whose wallet is this?
  2. Of whom, belonging to whom; used as a relative pronoun.
    This is the man whose dog caused the accident. (=This man's dog caused the accident.)
    • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
      The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. [] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
  3. (formerly proscribed) Of which, belonging to which; used as a relative pronoun.
    We saw several houses whose roofs are falling off. (=The roofs are falling off several houses that we saw.)

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