Definitions for pronoun

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pronoun pro·noun

Spelling: [proh-noun]

IPA: /ˈproʊˌnaʊn/

Pronoun is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in pronoun (nnoopru).

Definitions for pronoun

noun

1. any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective.

Origin of pronoun

1520-30; Middle French pronom Latin prōnōmen (stem prōnōmin-). See pro-¹, noun

Examples for pronoun

The use of the pronoun, the disuse of the grammar pulled him up short.

The antecedent of this pronoun had been mentioned for the last time at eight o'clock.

His famous mom still struggles with a pronoun for him, he tells Jacob Bernstein in an interview.

He asks, “What magic is there in the pronoun ‘my,’ that should justify us in overturning the decisions of impartial truth?”

Oh, the heaven and hell wrought by the casual use of a pronoun.

The accent upon the pronoun was very faint, but it was there for him to notice if he liked.

The pronoun is deliberate: the Sims was one of the first games to be played by women in significant numbers.

And at each utterance of the pronoun he lunged with his forefinger in the direction of his son.

In grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number.

He placed particular emphasis on the pronoun when he spoke the title aloud.