Word.ws English Dictionary

whom's

whom's is the contraction of whom.

whom's is the misconstruction of whose.

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!

Meaning of whose

Pronoun

whose

  1. (interrogative) That or those of whom or belonging to whom.
    • Several people have lost their suitcases. Whose have you found?
  2. (relative) That or those of whom or belonging to whom.
    • This car is blocking the way, but Mr Smith, whose it is, will be here shortly.

See all 5 meanings of whose

Synonyms of whom's

Questions about whom's

What is whom's the contraction of?
Whom's is the contraction of whom.

Words near whom's in the dictionary

  1. wholth
  2. wholy
  3. whom
  4. whom am I kidding
  5. whom're
  6. whom's
  7. whom've
  8. whom-batt
  9. whoman
  10. whomble
  11. whombled

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: whom's (page history and authors); whom (page history and authors); whose (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “whom's.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/whom%27s. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.