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who'd've

/hudə(v)/

who'd've is the contraction of who.

Meaning of who

Pronoun

who (singular or plural, nominative case, objective whom, who, possessive whose)

  1. (interrogative, nominative, plural, singular) What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question.
    • You're getting married‽ Who to? (direct question)
  2. (nominative, plural, relative, singular) With antecedent as subject.
    • That's the man who works at the newsagent. (defining)
  3. (nominative, plural, relative, singular, non-formal) With antecedent as object: whom.
    • That's the man who I saw earlier.
  4. (nominative, plural, singular, fused relative, archaic or marginal) Whoever, he who, they who.
    • Who dares wins.
  5. (informal, nominative, plural, singular, especially non-US) Also used with names of collective nouns that are groups of people, especially singularly-named musical groups or sports teams.
    • Who are the Miami Heat?

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Phrases with who'd've

Questions about who'd've

What is who'd've the contraction of?
Who'd've is the contraction of who.
How do you pronounce who'd've?
Who'd've is pronounced /hudə(v)/.

Words near who'd've in the dictionary

  1. who woulda thunk it
  2. who writes this stuff
  3. who'd
  4. who'd a thunk it
  5. who'd have thunk it
  6. who'd've
  7. who'd've thunk it
  8. who'da
  9. who'da thunk it
  10. who'll
  11. who'm

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Adapted from Wiktionary: who'd've (page history and authors); who (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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