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quhom

quhom is the obsolete spelling of whom.

Meaning of whom

Pronoun

whom (singular and plural objective case of who)

  1. (formal, interrogative, often) As the object of a verb.
    • Whom did you ask?
  2. (formal, interrogative, often) As the object of a preposition.
    • To whom are you referring?
  3. (formal, often, relative) Used to refer to a previously mentioned person or people.
    • That is the woman whom I spoke to earlier. (defining)
  4. (formal, often, fused relative, archaic outside set patterns) The person(s) whom; whomever.
    • To whom it may concern, all business of John Smith Ltd. has now been transferred to Floggitt & Runne.
  5. (formal, informal, often, especially non-US) Also used with names of collective nouns that are groups of people, especially singularly-named musical groups or sports teams.
    • Whom was Lemmy bassist for? Motörhead!

Origin of quhom

Compare quhat and quhere, variants of what and where respectively.

Questions about quhom

What is quhom the obsolete spelling of?
Quhom is the obsolete spelling of whom.

Words near quhom in the dictionary

  1. quher
  2. quhere
  3. quhich
  4. Quhistan
  5. quho
  6. quhom
  7. quhow
  8. qui tam
  9. qui tams
  10. qui vive
  11. qui-hi

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quhom (page history and authors); whom (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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