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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishwhos, fromOld Englishhwæs, fromProto-Germanic*hwes, genitive case of*hwaz(“who”)*hwat(“what”).

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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whose

  1. (interrogative) Ofwhom, belonging towhom; which person's or people's.
    Whose (wallet) is this?
    We should buy a house. ~ Withwhose money?
    Forwhose benefit are you acting.?
  2. (relative) Ofwhom, belonging towhom.
    This is the manwhose dog caused the accident.
    (= This man's dog caused the accident.)
    Venus,whose sister is Serena, won the latest championship.
    I dedicate this award to my parents, withoutwhose help I wouldn't havemade it this far.
    The victim was a youngster, both ofwhose eyes were missing.
    He askedwhose the umbrella was.
    • 1921,Ben Travers, chapter 5, inA Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, Page & Company, published1925,→OCLC:
      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 cadswhose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
  3. (relative) Ofwhich, belonging towhich.
    We saw several houseswhose roofs were falling off.
    (= The roofs were falling off several houses that we saw.)

Derived terms

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Translations

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of whom (interrogative)
of whom (relative)
of which (relative)
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Pronoun

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whose

  1. (interrogative) That or those ofwhom or belonging to whom.
    Several people have lost their suitcases.Whose have you found?
  2. (relative) That or those ofwhom or belonging to whom.
    This car is blocking the way, but Mr Smith,whose it is, will be here shortly.
    • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Acts27:23:
      For there stood by me this night the angel of God,whose I am, and whom I serve,
    • 1833,Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 3,page 637 (Google Books view):
      If he starts it on another man's lands, and kills it there, it belongs to the owner of the land; but if he start game on one man's lands, and pursue it to those of another, and kill it there, it is neither the property of the man on whose lands it is started, nor of him onwhose it is killed, but belongs to the killer.
    • 1895,Library Journal, Volume 20,page 397 (Google Books view):
      The notes on authors are extremely brilliant and incisive, not always in good perspective and sometimes freaky in their wit, as, for instance, the reference to Mrs. Holmes, of whose books it is said, "The secret of their long popularity has never been divulged by their readers," and Mrs. Harris, ofwhose it is said, "To a lively mind they should be conducive of profound sleep," which, whatever its faults, is by no means true of "Rutledge."

Translations

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(interrogative) that or those of whom or belonging to whom
(relative) that or those of whom or belonging to whom

Contraction

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whose

  1. Misspelling ofwho's.

Anagrams

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Middle English

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Pronoun

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whose

  1. (chiefly Late Middle English)alternative form ofwhos(“whose”,genitive)
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