WHICH
\wˈɪt͡ʃ], \wˈɪtʃ], \w_ˈɪ_tʃ]\
Definitions of WHICH
- 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
Sort: Oldest first
-
A compound relative or indefinite pronoun, standing for any one which, whichever, that which, those which, the . . . which, and the like; as, take which you will.
By Oddity Software
-
A compound relative or indefinite pronoun, standing for any one which, whichever, that which, those which, the . . . which, and the like; as, take which you will.
By Noah Webster.
-
An interrogative; as, which is your house? a relative, meaning a particular one; the one that; as, point out which is yours; used of animals, ideas, or things.
-
Interrogative; as, which house is yours?.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
-
Which was often formerly preceded by the definite article the. That worthy name by the which ye are called.
-
James ii.7. It was formerly open followed by that or as, having the effect of giving emphasis or definiteness. “This abbot which that was an holy ma.â€-Chaucer.
By Daniel Lyons
-
Used in relation to things, and demonstratively and interrogatively, both for persons and things, as, "the tree which," "which man?".
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
-
A word of interrogation in all genders; as, which man? Which woman? Which house? Also a relative in reference to things neuter.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
-
An interrogative, as, "which is the house?" the so-called neuter of who; a word used when referring to something going before, as a place, animal, thing, or a phrase; used as a demonstrative adj., as, "take which you will".
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
Word of the day
costotransverse
- Relating to ribs and transverse processes of the vertebrae articulating with them. Lying between ribs and transverse process of the vertebrae.