determiner, pronoun
1 used in questions to ask who sth belongs to:
Whose house is that? * I wonder whose this is.
2 used to say which person or thing you mean:
He's a man whose opinion I respect. * It's the house whose door's painted red.
3 used to give more information about a person or thing:
Isobel, whose brother he was, had heard the joke before.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for whose is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does whose appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — whose appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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