who
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/huΛ/
English
Definitions
noun
- A person under discussion; a question of which person.
pronoun
- (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone. (used in a direct or indirect question)βI don't know who it is. (indirect question)β
- (interrogative) What is one's position; asks whether someone deserves to say or do something.βI don't like what you did, but who am I to criticize you? I've done worse.β
- (relative) The person or people that.
- (relative) Whoever, he who, they who.βIt was a nice man who helped us.β
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Synonyms
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