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what not

what not noun: something of the kind, whatever (used to terminate a vague list).

Noun

what not (uncountable)

  1. (dated, idiomatic) Something of the kind, whatever (used to terminate a vague list).
    • This, following the democratic disposition of the times, was commonly conceived of as an elected body, a municipality, the parliamentary state or what not.1931, H G Wells, What are we to do with our lives?

what not meaning in Urdu and Bengali

what not in Urdu

الا بلا, کیا کیا

what not in Bengali

সেই জাতীয় কিছু

Words formed from what not

Questions about what not

What does what not mean?
What not means something of the kind, whatever (used to terminate a vague list).
What is what not in Urdu?
What not in Urdu is الا بلا, کیا کیا. See What not meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is what not?
What not is a noun.

Words near what not in the dictionary

  1. what it takes
  2. what kind of music do you like
  3. what languages do you speak
  4. what next
  5. what nonsense
  6. what not
  7. what now
  8. what number
  9. what o'clock is it
  10. what of
  11. what of it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: what not (page history and authors); what not (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); what not (Bengali 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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