pronoun
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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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| any member of a class of words that in many languages are distinguished in form, as partly in English by having comparative and superlative endings, or by functioning as modifiers of nouns, as good, wise, perfect. |
| any member of a class of words that are formally distinguished in many languages, as in English by taking the past ending in -ed, that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and |
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| 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 | |
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Word Origin & History
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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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
pronoun definition
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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Example sentences
In this case, the object pronoun in the idiom entry is someone: give someone a rain check.
Even a campaign to replace the polite pronoun bombed.
Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.
But in you guys, it takes on the guise of a pronoun.
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