whomst
/huːmst/
whomst is the nonstandard form of who.
Meaning of who
Pronoun
who (singular or plural, nominative case, objective whom, who, possessive whose)
- 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)
- With antecedent as subject.
- That's the man who works at the newsagent. (defining)
- With antecedent as object: whom.
- That's the man who I saw earlier.
- Whoever, he who, they who.
- Who dares wins.
- 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?
Origin of whomst
From whom + -st (excrescent suffix).
Questions about whomst
- What is whomst the nonstandard form of?
- Whomst is the nonstandard form of who.
- How do you pronounce whomst?
- Whomst is pronounced /huːmst/.
Words near whomst in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: whomst (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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