pronoun
Syllables: pro·nounUK/ˈpɹəʊ.naʊn//ˈpɹoʊ.naʊn/
pronoun noun: a part of speech that refers anaphorically to a noun or noun phrase, which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective.
Noun
pronoun (plural pronouns)
- A part of speech that refers anaphorically to a noun or noun phrase, 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; […]1789, Jean Baptiste, A grammar of the French tongue, page 193
- 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!1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy
- 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.2019, Genny Beemyn, editor, Trans People in Higher Education, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 178
pronoun meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
pronoun in Hindi
- part of speech
- सर्वनाम sarvanām
pronoun in Tamil
- part of speech
- பெயர்ச்சொல் peyarccol, பெயர் peyar
pronoun in Marathi
- pronoun
- सर्वनाम sarvanām
pronoun in Urdu
- part of speech
- ضَمِیر zamīr
More languagesFewer languages
- pronoun in Bengali
- সর্বনাম śorbonam
- pronoun in Telugu
- సర్వనామము sarvanāmamu
- pronoun in Malayalam
- സർവ്വനാമം saṟvvanāmaṁ
- pronoun in Kannada
- ಆಡುಗಪದ
- pronoun in Sanskrit
- सर्वनामन् sarvanāman
- pronoun in Nepali
- सर्वनाम sarvanām
- pronoun in Pashto
- ضمير zamir, نومځری numjǝray
- pronoun in Tagalog
- panghalip
- pronoun in Arabic
- ضَمِير ḍamīr, ضَمَائِرُ ḍamāʔiru
- pronoun in Malay
- kata ganti diri
- pronoun in Indonesian
- pronomina, kata ganti
- pronoun in Thai
- สรรพนาม sàp-pá-naam
- pronoun in Vietnamese
- đại từ
- pronoun in Myanmar
- နာမ်စား namca:
Examples of pronoun in a sentence
- 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.2013, Nicholas Brownless, “Spoken Discourse in Early English Newspapers”, in Joad Raymond, editor, News Networks in Seventeenth Century...
- In recent weeks, [Rachel] Accurso has faced backlash from some parents on TikTok who say her content is "inappropriate" because it features her co-star, Jules, a musician who uses they/them pronouns.2023 March 2, Morgan Sung, “Viral kids' star Ms. Rachel is taking a break from social media after backlash over co-star who uses they/them...
- I don’t have to be like, Okay, I guess I’ll let you ignore my pronouns.2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2023:
- Abbott celebrated the move on X, sharing a report from the Austin American-Statesman on the firing and writing: “A Texas state employee refused to remove pronouns from email signature.2025 March 6, Erum Salam, quoting Greg Abbott, “Elon Musk and Texas governor celebrate firing of worker over pronouns in email signature”...
Forms of pronoun
| plural | pronouns |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | pronoune |
Origin of pronoun
From pro- + noun, modeled on Middle French pronom, from Latin pronomen, itself a calque of Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντωνῠμῐ́ᾱ (ăntōnŭmĭ́ā).
Words formed from pronoun
- 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
- pronoun person
- pronounphobia
- reciprocal pronoun
- relative pronoun
- resumptive pronoun
- shadow pronoun
- Spivak pronoun
- subject pronoun
- substantival pronoun
- substantive pronoun
- weak pronoun
- weather pronoun
- xenopronoun
Phrases with pronoun
Words that rhyme with pronoun
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Questions about pronoun
- What does pronoun mean?
- Pronoun means a part of speech that refers anaphorically to a noun or noun phrase, which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective.
- What is pronoun in Hindi?
- Pronoun in Hindi is सर्वनाम (sarvanām). See Pronoun meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use pronoun in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is pronoun?
- Pronoun is a noun.
- How do you pronounce pronoun?
- Pronoun is pronounced /ˈpɹəʊ.naʊn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pronoun?
- The plural of pronoun is pronouns.
Words near pronoun in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pronoun (page history and authors); सर्वनाम (Marathi) (page history and authors); pronoun (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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