Whose Meaning
/huːz/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
detOf whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's.
detOf whom, belonging to whom.
Sentence Examples
Being objective means not telling everybody whose side you are on.
Throw away the chairs whose legs are broken.
Whose turn is it to deal?
CEFR Practice Quiz
The employee ____ report on quarterly sales was missing had to rewrite it.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Do you know exactly ____ car is parked in front of our house, as it is blocking the several main entrance today?
Word Origin & History
From Middle English whos, from Old English hwæs, from Proto-Germanic *hwes, genitive case of *hwaz (“who”) *hwat (“what”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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?"
— 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
"For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,"
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 27:23:
"Saviour, Whose love constrained them / To toil with zeal untired,"
— 1931 January, Frank Houghton, “The Unfinished Task”, in China’s Millions, volume LVII, number 1, page 6:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The employee ____ report on quarterly sales was missing had to rewrite it.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Do you know exactly ____ car is parked in front of our house, as it is blocking the several main entrance today?