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pronoun

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pro·noun

   [proh-noun]
–nounGrammar.
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.
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Origin:
1520–30; < MF pronom < L prōnōmen (s. prōnōmin-). See pro-1, noun
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pronoun (ˈprəʊˌnaʊn) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
—n
pron 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
 
[C16: from Latin prōnōmen, from pro-1 + nōmen noun]

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pronoun
1530, from pro- and noun; modeled on M.Fr. pronom, from L. pronomen, from pro- "in place of" + nomen "name, noun." A loan-translation of Gk. antonymia. Adj. pronomial is recorded from 1644.
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A word that takes the place of a noun. She, herself, it, and this are examples of pronouns. If we substituted pronouns for the nouns in the sentence “Please give the present to Karen,” it would read “Please give it to her.”

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