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whoever

/huˈɛvə//huˈɛvɚ/

whoever pronoun: who ever: an emphatic form of who. Also the misspelling of who ever other than in interrogative use.

Pronoun

whoever (nominative case, objective whomever, possessive whosever)

  1. (interrogative, nominative) Who ever: an emphatic form of who.
    • Whoever thought up that stupid idea?
  2. (nominative, fused relative) Any person or persons that.
    • Whoever breaks the law will be punished.
  3. (nominative, fused relative) The person that (no matter who).
    • Whoever robbed that old lady ought to be locked up.
    • I don't know what it is. Ask whoever put it there.
  4. (nominative) Regardless of the person or persons that.
    • Whoever stole the painting, the police will catch the thief in no time.
  5. (informal, nominative) Any person or persons.
    • I don't care who gets it; give it to whoever.

Also used as

whoever is also the misspelling of who ever other than in interrogative use.

whoever meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Gujarati and Odia

whoever in Tamil

யாராக இருந்தாலும்

whoever in Marathi

कोण तरी असो, जो कोणी

whoever in Gujarati

જે કોઈ પણ, જે કોઈ

whoever in Odia

ଯିଏ ବି
More languagesFewer languages
whoever in Tagalog
sinuman
whoever in Arabic
مَنْ man
whoever in Indonesian
siapa pun

Examples of whoever in a sentence

  • Whoever closed last night forgot to turn off the closet light.
  • In warfare, whoever opens fire first has a greater chance of victory.
  • I tip my hat to whoever invented the root beer float.

All 40 example sentences with whoever

Forms of whoever

objectivewhomever
possessivewhosever
alternative poeticwhoe'er
alternative form (obsolete, rare)whoëver

Origin of whoever

From Middle English whoever. By surface analysis, who + -ever.

Words formed from whoever

Phrases with whoever

Words that rhyme with whoever

17 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about whoever

What does whoever mean?
Whoever means who ever: an emphatic form of who.
What is whoever in Tamil?
Whoever in Tamil is யாராக இருந்தாலும். See Whoever meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is whoever?
Whoever is a pronoun.
How do you pronounce whoever?
Whoever is pronounced /huˈɛvɚ/ (US).

Words near whoever in the dictionary

  1. whodunnits
  2. whodunwhat
  3. whodunwhats
  4. whoe'er
  5. whoes
  6. whoever
  7. whoever pays the piper calls the tune
  8. whoever smelt it dealt it
  9. whoever's
  10. WHOI
  11. whois

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: whoever (page history and authors); whoever (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whoever (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whoever (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whoever (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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