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1. (possessive) who
what person or persons?:
Who is he?
2. who
(of a person) of what character or importance:
Who does she think she is?
3. who
the person that or any person that (used relatively to represent a specified or implied antecedent):
It was who you thought.
4. who
(used relatively in restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses to represent a specified antecedent, the antecedent being a person or sometimes an animal or personified thing):
Any kid who wants to can learn to swim.
5. who
Archaic. the person or persons who.
Who said that? The guard who let us in checked our badges; ), and whom is used for the object of a verb or preposition (; Whom did you ask? To whom are we obliged for this assistance?; ). This distinction is observed less and less in current English. The usage cited above is characteristic of formal writing and is generally followed in edited prose. In natural informal speech, however, whom is quite rare. whom still prevails as the object of a preposition when the preposition immediately precedes (; all patients with whom you have had contact; ), but this juxtaposition tends to be avoided in both speech and writing, esp. in questions (; Who is this gift from?; ) and sometimes by omission of the pronoun altogether (; all patients you have had contact with; ).
6. WHO
World Health Organization.
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| Definition of 'who' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) World Health Organization, WHO
a United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services
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1. (pronoun) who
used to ask which person or group is meant, or about sb's name
Who told you I was here?; Who were those guys you were talking to?
2. who
indicates the person or group just mentioned
the musicians who he formed the band with
3. who
used to give more information about the person or group just mentioned
Jamie, who I went to college with, just moved to Chicago.
4. who
who knows/cares etc.
indicates you do not know/care etc.
Who knows where he is now.
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. who
originally, an interrogative pronoun, later, a relative pronoun also; -- used always substantively, and either as singular or plural. See the Note under What, pron., 1. As interrogative pronouns, who and whom ask the question: What or which person or persons? Who and whom, as relative pronouns (in the sense of that), are properly used of persons (corresponding to which, as applied to things), but are sometimes, less properly and now rarely, used of animals, plants, etc. Who and whom, as compound relatives, are also used especially of persons, meaning the person that; the persons that; the one that; whosoever
2. who
one; any; one
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Sense: (used as the subject of a verb) what person(s)(?)
Who is that woman in the green hat?; Who did that?; Who won?; Do you know who all these people are?
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 Afrikaans: wie |
 Arabic: من؟: ضمير إستِفْهام عن ال |
 Bulgarian: кой |
 Brazilian: quem |
 Czech: kdo |
 German: wer |
 Danish: hvem |
 Greek: ποιος |
 Spanish: quién, quiénes |
 Estonian: kes |
 Farsi: چه کسى |
 Finnish: kuka |
 French: (qui est-ce) qui |
 Hebrew: מִי |
 Hindi: कौन |
 Croatian: tko |
 Hungarian: ki(k)? |
 Indonesian: siapa |
 Icelandic: hver |
 Italian: chi |
 Japanese: だれが |
 Korean: (사람에 관해 물어) 누구, 어떤 사람(들) |
 Lithuanian: kas |
 Latvian: kas |
 Malay: siapa |
 Dutch: wie |
 Norwegian: hvem |
 Polish: kto |
 Persian: چه کسى |
 Pashto: څوك، چا: كوم يو (وګړى |
 Portuguese: quem |
 Romanian: cine |
 Russian: кто |
 Slovak: kto |
 Slovenian: kdo |
 Serbian: ko |
 Swedish: vem |
 Thai: ใคร |
 Turkish: kim(i), kimler(i) |
 Taiwanese: 誰 |
 Ukrainian: хто?; котрий? |
 Urdu: کون |
 Vietnamese: ai |
 Chinese: 谁 |
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