Definition of "who"

who

/huː/

pronoun
singular or plural, nominative case, objective whom, who, possessive whose
1. (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question.
  Quotations
  Ia[go]. Hee’s married. Caſ[ſio]. To who? […] Ia[go]. Marry to. ---- Come Captaine, will you goe? Oth[ello]. Ha, with who?
  c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, [Act I, scene ii], page 8
2. (relative) Introduces a relative clause having a human antecedent.
  1. With antecedent as subject.
    Quotations
    Chorban: I don't really think my scanning disturbs them, but the authorities might disagree.Chorban: I'd like to do it more openly, but it's not really worth getting arrested over.Shepard: I could help you out. I'm not worried about the authorities.Chorban: I don't even know who you are.
    2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Citadel
    Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
    2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions‎, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, pages 219–257
  2. (non-formal) With antecedent as object: whom.
3. (fused relative, archaic or marginal) Whoever, he who, they who.
  Quotations
  Who steals my purse steals trash.
  c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iii]
noun
plural whos
1. A person under discussion; a question of which person.
  Quotations
  A wham-bam caper flick, efficiently directed by Roger Donaldson, that fancifully revisits the mysterious whos and speculative hows of a 1971 London bank heist.
  2008 March 21, The New York Times, “Movie Guide and Film Series”, in New York Times‎
determiner
1. (interrogative, dialect, African-American Vernacular) whose

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