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whosever

/ˈhuzˌɛvəɹ/

whosever determiner: of whomever; belonging or related to whichever person or persons; whoever's.

Determiner

whosever

  1. (formal, possessive) Of whomever; belonging or related to whichever person or persons; whoever's.
    • Whosever sunglasses these are will have to pick them up tomorrow.
    • "And she is not wholesome, whosever word it was. She was there, hanging about him when he was so bad, before the worst came."1866, Mark Twain, The Galaxy, W.C and F.P. Church, page 584

Pronoun

whosever

  1. (formal, possessive) That of whomever; that which belongs or is related to whatever person or persons; whoever's.
    • At first she had been only relieved to find that the voice, whosever it was, trickling over the wire, was not his.1930, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace, Part III, Chapter III, page 303

Contraction

whosever

  1. (contraction, formal, proscribed) whoever is.
    • This would make J. Dumars come off the bench and sometimes give us a nice 3 guard line-up sometimes with Hunter at SG, Dumars at SF, and whosever in between the pg's from GS.1997 January 7, Raj Capoor, “S. Augmon wants out cont'd”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.det-pistons (Usenet)
    • People keep passing the buck to whosever left to blame.2000 July 20, Michael J. Sacks, “It's started already”, in alt.sports.baseball.chicago-cubs (Usenet)

Forms of whosever

alternative form (rare)whoseever

Origin of whosever

From whose + -ever.

From whoever with who's replacing who.

Questions about whosever

What does whosever mean?
Whosever means of whomever; belonging or related to whichever person or persons; whoever's.
What part of speech is whosever?
Whosever can be a determiner, a pronoun or a contraction.
How do you pronounce whosever?
Whosever is pronounced /ˈhuzˌɛvəɹ/ (US).

Words near whosever in the dictionary

  1. whosername
  2. Whosers
  3. whoseso
  4. whosesoe'er
  5. whosesoever
  6. whosever
  7. whosherface
  8. whoshername
  9. whoshisface
  10. whoshisname
  11. whosie-whatsit

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