WHAT
\wˈɒt], \wˈɒt], \w_ˈɒ_t]\
Definitions of WHAT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!
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Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!
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As a relative pronoun
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Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw.
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Something; thing; stuff.
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Why? For what purpose? On what account?
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Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; - called a compound relative.
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Used adjectively, equivalent to the . . . which; the sort or kind of . . . which; rarely, the . . . on, or at, which.
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Whatever; whatsoever; what thing soever; - used indefinitely.
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Used adverbially, in part; partly; somewhat; - with a following preposition, especially, with, and commonly with repetition.
By Oddity Software
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Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!
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Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!
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As a relative pronoun
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Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw.
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Something; thing; stuff.
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Why? For what purpose? On what account?
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Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; - called a compound relative.
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Used adjectively, equivalent to the . . . which; the sort or kind of . . . which; rarely, the . . . on, or at, which.
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Whatever; whatsoever; what thing soever; - used indefinitely.
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Used adverbially, in part; partly; somewhat; - with a following preposition, especially, with, and commonly with repetition.
By Noah Webster.
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Compound relative meaning that which; the thing that; as, have you found what you want? an interrogative; as, what are you doing? an indefinite; as, I do not know what happende.
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Interrogative; as, what trade does he follow?.
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How; how much; as, what does it profit? Partly: followed by with; as, what with the cold and what with the darkness we could go no farther.
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That; as, there is no doubt but what he will succeed; so far as; as well as.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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In interrogative construction, asking. For information as to a person or thing.
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How surprising, ridiculous, great, or the like.
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Which circumstance, event, relation, or the like.
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That which; a double relative.
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In what respect; to what extent.
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In some measure; partly.
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So far as; as well as.
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That; especially in the phrase but what.
By James Champlin Fernald
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That which; the thing that; which part, much used in asking questions interrogatively and elliptically, as equivalent to what will be the consequence? What time, at the time when. What though, granted this or that; allow it to be so. What, ho! an exclamation of calling.
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Thing; matter.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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That which; the thing that; the sort or kind; which of several; used as an exclamatory word by way of surprise or question, meaning, how great, how remarkable, and suchlike; used for partly or in part,-as, "what with war, what with poverty".
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
