Definition of What
Definition of What

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Most common English words: up « your « any « #59: what » do » has » could

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[edit] Etymology

Middle English < Old English hwæt < Proto-Germanic *hwa- < Proto-Indo-European *k?os, *k?od (which also gave us who).

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what

  1. (interrogative) which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: used interrogatively in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.
    What is your address?
    You told them what?
    (UK) (colloquial) It's rather late, what?
  2. (relative, nonstandard) that; which

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[edit] Adverb

what (not comparable)

Positive
what

 

Comparative
not comparable

 

Superlative
none (absolute)

  1. in some manner or degree; in part; partly; usually followed by with.
    What with singing and joking, the time passed quickly.
  2. Such; this is; that is.
    What a pity.
    What a beautiful day!
  3. (obsolete) Why?
  4. (now rare) Used to introduce each of two coordinate phrases or concepts; both...and.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book III:
      and so they rode fresshly with grete royalte, what by water and what by land, tyl that they came nyghe vnto london.

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