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who
1[ hoo ]
pronoun
- what person or persons?:
Who did it?
- (of a person) of what character, origin, position, importance, etc.:
Who does she think she is?
- the person that or any person that (used relatively to represent a specified or implied antecedent):
It was who you thought.
- (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.
- Archaic. the person or persons who.
WHO
2[ duhb-uhl-yoo-eych-oh ]
abbreviation for
- World Health Organization: an agency of the United Nations, established in 1948, concerned with improving international public health and preventing or controlling communicable diseases on a worldwide basis through various technical projects and programs.
WHO
1abbreviation for
- World Health Organization
who
2/ huː /
pronoun
- which person? what person? used in direct and indirect questions
who met you?
he can't remember who did it
- used to introduce relative clauses with antecedents referring to human beings
the people who lived here have left
- the one or ones who; whoever
bring who you want
Usage
Confusables Note
Word History and Origins
Origin of who1
Word History and Origins
Origin of who1
Idioms and Phrases
- as who should say, Archaic. in a manner of speaking; so to say.
Example Sentences
Because that minimum-wage hike was a project of the federal government, and that means that you-know-who was for it.
Meanwhile, they have devastated mental-health funding since you-know-who became president.
Another doctor claimed that Afridi ran off with several WHO-supplied boxes of vaccines.
So pondering this situation has got me thinking for the first time semi-seriously about you-know-who.
On the other side, President Obama seems to have become Lord Voldemort to the Hollywood elite: He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
O my people!Who crowd with greedy eyes round this my jewel,Poor ivory, token of his outward beauty—Oh!
From time to time they caught the grewsome head by the hair and shook it violently, shouting, Who-oo-oo!
Aveline-who-never-lied lies half stretched out upon a bench.
But Miss Wilson will not talk about the row, whatever it was, with the chance of goodness-knows-who coming in any minute.
Peter-who-lives-next-door came in this morning to display an infinitesimal, bandaged thumb.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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