whose

¹whose

adj \ˈhüz, üz\

Definition of WHOSE

: of or relating to whom or which especially as possessor or possessors <whose gorgeous vesture heaps the ground — Robert Browning>, agent or agents <the law courts, whose decisions were important — F. L. Mott>, or object or objects of an action <the first poem whose publication he ever sanctioned — J. W. Krutch>

Examples of WHOSE

1. The granddaddy of all metafictional novels was Tristram Shandy, whose narrator's dialogues with his imaginary readers are only one of many ways in which Sterne foregrounds the gap between art and life that conventional realism seeks to conceal. —David Lodge, The Art of Fiction, 1992
2. In early times when I sat with my grandfather … I was puzzled about the relation between the Davis who had lived in a world of great events and my Old Jeff, whose name had entered into the common speech of the region … —Robert Penn Warren, Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back, 1980
3. He was a flamboyant, excited person whose eyes darted here and there, like a child's, afraid of what they might miss. —E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime, 1974

Origin of WHOSE

Middle English whos, genitive of who, what

First Known Use: before 12th century

Rhymes with WHOSE

blues, booze, bruise, choose, cruise, cruse, Druze, flews, fuse, lose, Meuse, muse, news, ooze, Ouse, roose, ruse, schmooze, snooze, trews, use