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whenwe

/ˈwɛn.wiː/

whenwe noun: a former British settler or expatriate who talks nostalgically about his or her former home in colonial Africa.

Noun

whenwe (plural whenwes)

  1. (slang) A former British settler or expatriate who talks nostalgically about his or her former home in colonial Africa.

whenwe meaning in Tamil

whenwe in Tamil

தழைய

Forms of whenwe

pluralwhenwes

Origin of whenwe

From when + we, suggesting the start of an anecdote, e.g., "When we were in Rhodesia...".

Questions about whenwe

What does whenwe mean?
Whenwe means a former British settler or expatriate who talks nostalgically about his or her former home in colonial Africa.
What is whenwe in Tamil?
Whenwe in Tamil is தழைய. See Whenwe meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is whenwe?
Whenwe is a noun.
How do you pronounce whenwe?
Whenwe is pronounced /ˈwɛn.wiː/ (UK).
What is the plural of whenwe?
The plural of whenwe is whenwes.

Words near whenwe in the dictionary

  1. whensoe'er
  2. whensoever
  3. whensomever
  4. whensoëver
  5. Whenuapai
  6. whenwe
  7. whenwes
  8. whept
  9. wher-wolf
  10. wher-wolves
  11. where

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whenwe (page history and authors); whenwe (Tamil 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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