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Word
What
How many syllables?
1 Syllable
How it's divided?
what
Definition
- pron., a., & adv. - As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking
questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what
did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost?
- pron., a., & adv. - As an exclamatory word: -- (a) Used absolutely
or independently; -- often with a question following.
- pron., a., & adv. - Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or
how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!
- pron., a., & adv. - Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an
adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!
- pron., a., & adv. - As a relative pronoun
- pron., a., & adv. - Used substantively with the antecedent
suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those
[things] which; -- called a compound relative.
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