who
pronoun (QUESTIONS) /huː/Definition
A1 used especially in questions as the subject or object of a verb, when asking which person or people, or when asking what someone's name is: Who did this? Who's she? Who are all those people? She asked me if I knew who had got the job. Who (also formal whom) do you want to talk to? I don't know who to ask to the party.Question words and expressions › used with verbs that relate to knowing, when you want to say that something is not known: "Are they going to get married?" "Who knows?" (= It is not possible to know at the moment.) Who can tell what will happen now?Question words and expressions
(Definition of who pronoun (QUESTIONS) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- extent noun
- how about...? idiom
- how adverb
- 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
- whose pronoun, determiner
- would you like...? idiom
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