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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026

whose pron.

the form of the pronoun who or which used to show that something is owned, appearing before a noun:She is someone whose faith is strong. That's a word whose meaning escapes me.
This word is used in questions to mean "the one or ones belonging to what person or persons'':Whose umbrella is that?

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

whose pron.

(the possessive case of who used as an adjective):Whose umbrella did I take? Whose is this one?
(the possessive case of which used as an adjective):a word whose meaning escapes me; an animal whose fur changes color.
the one or ones belonging to what person or persons:Whose painting won the third prize?

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

of which

which:

Chicago is a city of which the attractions are many

Chicago is a city the attractions of which are many.

whose

Chicago is a city whose attractions are many.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

whose /huːz/ determiner

- of whom? belonging to whom? used in direct and indirect questions: I told him whose fault it was, whose car is this?
- (as pronoun): whose is that?
of whom; belonging to whom; of which; belonging to which: used as a relative pronoun: a house whose windows are broken

Etymology: Old English hwæs, genitive of hwā who and hwæt what

'whose' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

A - Aegisthus - Afrikaner - agglutinative - aggregator - Aleixandre - Algonquian - allophone - analytic - Anderson - Androcles - Anglo-American - Anglo-Saxon - anonymous - Apelles - Archipenko - arctic hare - Areopagus - arpeggio - arrowroot - Artaud - artist - Assur - assured - asylum - attack - Aurangzeb - Austin - auteur - avant-garde - Avicenna - B - Babel - background - baker - Balakirev - Baldwin - ballbreaker - bankrupt - banshee - bar graph - barber - base - beacon school - bean - Beat Generation - Beckett - bee moth - Beerbohm - benchmark

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Synonyms: to whom, to who, of whom, of which the, belonging to what person, more...

Collocations: whose [name, reputation] precedes her, I don't know whose [fault, idea] it was, do you know whose [pen, umbrella] this is?, more...

Forum discussions with the word(s) "whose" in the title:

... whose business (it) is to...
... whose time to be pillorized seems to
...,amongst whose ranks the writer is to be found,...
...whose long "service" has equipped them ...
...whose members
'Whose' with inanimate objects.
‘Authors Guild, an organization whose mission is to support working writers’
(whose?) choosing
[...] whose ambition it is to take an independent Scotland back into the EU [...]
[Subject] is a part of speech whose function it is to modify
~a bin-man, whose duty it was to supply~
a (human) product whose sell-by date has passed
a beautiful fish <which><whose> color is unique
a book whose name
a boy whose voice hasn't yet dropped=a boy who is in a sound period change?
a brother of whose
a car whose funtion is to drive
A chef is a person whose duty （it） is to cook.
A child whose parents are dead is called an orphan.
A child whose parents come from different countries: word?
a cleft sentence with "whose"
A clock whose pendulum was gone a-visiting?
A company whose money is owed to
A country whose design you admire
a country whose women
a friend whose father teaches at a high school
A guy, whose knowledge vs a song, which clip
a house whose walls are soaked from rain/groundwater
a job whose stress and worries come home with you
A language, whose knowledge?
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