word-vault/dist/data/cards/wh/whose.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "whose",
    "partOfSpeech": "determiner, pronoun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "used in questions to ask who something belongs to",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Whose house is that?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I wonder whose this is."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used to say which person or thing you mean",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He's a man whose opinion I respect."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's the house whose door is painted red."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "used to give more information about a person or thing",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Isobel, whose brother he was, had heard the joke before."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/huːz/",
                "audio": "wh/whose/whose__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/huːz/",
                "audio": "wh/whose/whose__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English hwæs, genitive of hwā ‘who’ and hwæt ‘what’."
}