What does Whose mean?
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whosepronoun
Of whom, belonging to whom; .
Whose wallet is this?
whosepronoun
Of which, belonging to which; .
We saw several houses whose roofs are falling off. (=The roofs are falling off several houses we saw.)
Etymology: Genitive of who, from hwæs, the genitive of hwa, from hwaz, from kʷos
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Whosenoun
Though I could
With barefac’d power sweep him from my sight,
And bid my will avouch it, yet I must not;
For certain friends that are both his and mine,
Whose loves I may not drop. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.Thy name afrights me, in whose sound is death. William Shakespeare.
Those darts whose points make gods adore
His might, and deprecate his power. Matthew Prior.
Webster Dictionary
Whose
the possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which
Etymology: [OE. whos, whas, AS. hws, gen. of hw. See Who.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Whose
hōōz, pron. the possessive case of who or which.—pron. Whosesoev′er (B.), of whomsoever. [M. E. hwas—A.S. hwæs, gen. of hwá, who.]
Editors Contribution
whose
To belong to a person.
We know whose jumper that is.
Submitted by MaryC on March 22, 2020
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Whose' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #438
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Whose' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1555
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Whose in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Whose in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of Whose in a Sentence
Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American?:
What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American.
On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world.
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
The State Department spokesman:
We share a common humanity with these Afghans whose desperation, whose fear, whose concern... they wear it on their faces.
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