Definitions for whose

whose whose

Spelling: [hooz]
IPA: /huz/

Whose is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in whose (ehosw).

Definitions for whose

Idioms

  1. as who should say, Archaic. in a manner of speaking; so to say.

pronoun

  1. (the possessive case of who used as an adjective):
  2. (the possessive case of which used as an adjective):
  3. the one or ones belonging to what person or persons:

pronoun;

  1. what person or persons?:
  2. (of a person) of what character, origin, position, importance, etc.:
  3. the person that or any person that (used relatively to represent a specified or implied antecedent):
  4. (used relatively in restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses to represent a specified antecedent, the antecedent being a person or sometimes an animal or personified thing):
  5. Archaic. the person or persons who.

Origin of whose

before 900; Middle English whos, early Middle English hwās; replacing hwas, Old English hwæs, genitive of hwā who

Examples for whose

And there was big, handsome, Eddie Arledge, whose father had treated him shabbily.

So we think, whatever you think: and whose thoughts are to be preferred?

Cassandra, whose hair has already begun to fall out from her court-mandated chemotherapy, could face a similar outcome.

He was stopped by a policeman, who demanded, "whose bag is that, Johnny?"

One was a Quaker school, whose name he can no longer recall, in upstate New York.

By this engine, whose springs I am continually oiling, I play them all off.

That was accomplished by cops such as the one whose picture was clutched so tightly by his widow on Sunday.

Probably there was no boy present whose suit was of such fine material as his.

That tweet came from Shay Horse, whose bio lists him as an independent photojournalist with ties to Occupy Wall Street.

So, whose bidding do we think these candidates are going to do?

Word Value for whose
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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