Whose Definition

ho͝oz

pronoun

That or those belonging to whom.

Whose is this? whose will look best?

Webster's New World

Whose is the question word used to ask to whom a thing or things belongs.

An example of whose is when you find a dog without an owner and you ask who the owner is.

YourDictionary

Of whom, belonging to whom; used as an interrogative pronoun.

Whose wallet is this?

Wiktionary

(formerly proscribed) Of which, belonging to which; used as a relative pronoun.

We saw several houses whose roofs are falling off. (=The roofs are falling off several houses we saw.)

Wiktionary

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adjective

Of, belonging to, made by, or done by whom or which.

Whose book is lost? a song whose popularity endures.

Webster's New World

Origin of Whose

Genitive of who, from Old English hwæs, the genitive of hwa, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis

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