what
determiner, pronoun, exclamation (QUESTION) /wɒt/
/wɑːt/ Definition
A1 used to ask for information about people or things: What time is it? What books did you buy? What did you wear? What size shoes do you take? What happened after I left? What caused the accident?Question words and expressions › used in questions that show you are surprised or do not believe something: "I've just told Peter." "What?/You did what?" What's this I hear? You're leaving?Question words and expressions what... for? B2 used to ask about the reason for something: What are these tools for? What are you doing that for? "We need a bigger car." "What for?"Question words and expressions
(Definition of what determinerpronounexclamation (QUESTION) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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what about? idiom
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what an idea! idiom
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what are friends for? idiom
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what are you going to do? idiom
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what are you like? idiom
- what determiner, pronoun, exclamation (QUESTION)
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what do you bet? idiom
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what do you mean? idiom
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what good is ... idiom
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what have you got to say for yourself? idiom
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what I wouldn't give for sth idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- extent noun
- how about...? idiom
- how, what, why, etc. on earth... idiom
- in God's/heaven's name idiom
- interrogative adjective
- interrogative noun
- shall modal verb (SUGGEST)
- what the blazes...? idiom
- what's the score? idiom
- what/where/how/why the devil idiom
- when adverb, conjunction
- when pronoun
- whence adverb, conjunction
- whenever adverb
- where adverb, conjunction
- which determiner, pronoun (QUESTION)
- whither adverb
- who pronoun (QUESTIONS)
- whose pronoun, determiner
- would you like...? idiom
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