Who meaning
WHO stands for the World Health Organization.
An example of WHO is the organization that is concerned with international public health matters.
abbreviation
What or which person or persons.
Who left?
pronoun
The person or persons that; whoever.
Who believes that will believe anything.
pronoun
The definition of who is a reference to a person or people.
An example of who is someone asking the identity of a person; who is that child?
pronoun
What or which person or persons.
Who is he? I asked who he was; I don't know who he is.
pronoun
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Any person or persons that; whoever.
“who steals my purse steals trash”
pronoun
(relative pronoun) The person or people that.
It was a nice man who helped us.
pronoun
(Note that who is usually used instead of whom, especially in informal contexts.)
pronoun
Used as a relative pronoun to introduce a clause when the antecedent is a person or persons or one to whom personality is attributed.
The visitor who came yesterday; our child, who is gifted; informed sources who denied the story.
pronoun
World Health Organization.
abbreviation
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(interrogative pronoun) What person or people; which person or people (used in a direct or indirect question).
Who is that? (direct question)
I don't know who it is. (indirect question)
pronoun
The person or persons that, or a person that: used to introduce a relative clause.
The man who came to dinner.
pronoun
World Health Organization.
abbreviation
World Health Organization.
abbreviation
A person under discussion; a question of which person.
noun
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The World Health Organization.
acronym
as who should say
- As if one should say.
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of who
- Middle English from Old English hwā kwo- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Old English hwÄ (dative hwÄm, genitive hwæs), from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kÊ·os, *kÊ·is. Compare West Frisian wa, Dutch wie, German wer.
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