- The definition of a pronoun is a part of speech that replaces a noun in a sentence, assigning people or things as the subject.
- An example of pronoun is them.
- An example of pronoun is I.
- An example of pronoun is he.
pronoun
noun
Gram. any of a small class of relationship or signal words that assume the functions of nouns within clauses or phrases while referring to other locutions within the sentence or in other sentences: I, you, them, it, ours, who, which, myself, anybody, etc. are pronouns
Origin of pronoun
altered (infl. by noun) ; from Middle French pronom ; from Classical Latin pronomen ; from pro, for + nomen, nounpronoun
noun
Abbr. pron. or pr.- The part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and designates persons or things asked for, previously specified, or understood from the context.
- Any of the words within this part of speech, such as he or whom.
Origin of pronoun
Late Middle English pronoun, pronoune, partial translation of Latin prōnōmen (translation of Greek antōnumiā, interchange of names, pronoun) : prō-, pro- + nōmen, name, noun.pronoun
Noun
(plural pronouns)
- (grammar) A type of noun that refers anaphorically to another noun or noun phrase, but which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective. English examples include I, you, him, who, me, my, each other.
Origin
pro- + noun, modeled on Middle French pronom, from Latin pronomen, itself a calque of Ancient Greek ἀντωνυμία (antōnumia).
