pronoun
nounEtymology
From pro- + noun, modeled on Middle French pronom, from Latin pronomen, itself a calque of Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντωνῠμῐ́ᾱ (ăntōnŭmĭ́ā).
- derived from ᾰ̓ντωνῠμῐ́ᾱ
- derived from pronomen
- derived from pronom
Definitions
A type of word that refers anaphorically to a noun or noun phrase, but which cannot…
A type of word that refers anaphorically to a noun or noun phrase, but which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective.
- The possessive conjunctive pronoun is always repeated before a substantive, and after a conjunction; as my brothers and sisters, mes frères & mes sœurs; […]
- Dalia: Why are you playing the pronoun game? Alyssa: What? What are you talking about? I'm not even. Dalia: You are. "I met someone." "We have a great time. "They're from my home town." Doesn't this tube of wonderful have a name!
- As here the possessive pronoun 'our' has inclusive reference in that it a priori includes both the editor and reader, its presence amounts to a kind of pronominal bonding between writer and reader.
Ellipsis of preferred pronoun, any of the third-person pronouns by which a person prefers…
Ellipsis of preferred pronoun, any of the third-person pronouns by which a person prefers to be referred to, typically reflecting their gender identity; often communicated as a subject–object pair.
- My pronouns are she/her. What are your pronouns?
- The vast majority (82 percent) of the nonbinary trans students I interviewed used nonbinary pronouns for themselves, and all said that they were rarely given the opportunity to indicate their pronouns.
- Then an earnest elaboration: “It’s just nice that other people understand what I’m thinking. I don’t have to explain a million things. I don’t have to be like, Okay, I guess I’ll let you ignore my pronouns. It’s a very good space.”
The neighborhood
- synonympronoun
- neighborpronominal
- neighborpart of speech
- neighborpro-form
- neighborword
- neighboradjectival pronoun
- neighborsubstantival pronoun
- neighbordemonstrative pronoun
- neighboremphasizing pronoun
- neighborindefinite pronoun
- neighborintensive pronoun
- neighborinterrogative pronoun
- neighborobject pronoun
Derived
adjectival pronoun, copy pronoun, demonstrative pronoun, determinative pronoun, donkey pronoun, dummy pronoun, emphasizing pronoun, emphatic pronoun, epicene pronoun, gender-neutral pronoun, indefinite pronoun, intensive pronoun, interrogative pronoun, mispronoun, neopronoun, nounself pronoun, noun-self pronoun, object pronoun, perpendicular pronoun, personal pronoun, play the pronoun game, possessive pronoun, prepositional pronoun, prodrop, pro-drop, pronounal, pronoun dance, pronoun demonstrative, pronounlike, pronounphobia, reciprocal pronoun, relative pronoun, resumptive pronoun, shadow pronoun, Spivak pronoun, subject pronoun, substantival pronoun, substantive pronoun, weak pronoun, weather pronoun · +1 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at pronoun. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at pronoun. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at pronoun
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA