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pronoun

pro·noun
P p

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [proh-noun]
    • /ˈproʊˌnaʊn/
    • /ˈprəʊ.naʊn/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [proh-noun]
    • /ˈproʊˌnaʊn/

Definitions of pronoun word

  • noun pronoun any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective. 1
  • noun pronoun linguistics: substitute for noun 1
  • countable noun pronoun A pronoun is a word that you use to refer to someone or something when you do not need to use a noun, often because the person or thing has been mentioned earlier. Examples are 'it', 'she', 'something', and 'myself'. 0
  • noun pronoun one of a class of words that serves to replace a noun phrase that has already been or is about to be mentioned in the sentence or context 0
  • noun pronoun 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 0
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Origin of pronoun

First appearance:

before 1520
One of the 28% oldest English words
1520-30; < Middle French pronom < Latin prōnōmen (stem prōnōmin-). See pro-1, noun

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Pronoun

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Pronoun

pronoun popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

pronoun usage trend in Literature

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Related words

  • that

    (used with adjectives and adverbs of quantity or extent) to the extent or degree indicated: that much; The fish was that big.

  • each

    every one of two or more considered individually or one by one: each stone in a building; a hallway with a door at each end.

  • between

    If something is between two things or is in between them, it has one of the things on one side of it and the other thing on the other side.

  • preposition

    any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.

  • relative pronoun

    one of the pronouns who, whom, which, what, their compounds with -ever or -soever, or that used as the subordinating word to introduce a subordinate clause, especially such a pronoun referring to an antecedent.

  • than

    in relation to; by comparison with (usually followed by a pronoun in the objective case): He is a person than whom I can imagine no one more courteous.
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