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1) desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
lonely and sad; forsaken.2) any of various groups of stars to which definite names have been given, as Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Boötes, Cancer, Orion.3) to speak or recite in a singing voice, especially in monotone; chant.5) the sequential order in which past events occur.6) land that is uncultivated or barren.
an area that is devastated, as by flood, storm, or war.13) to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; to turn away in mental rebellion, utter disgust, or abhorrence |
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4) tastefully fine or luxurious in dress, style, design, etc.: elegant furnishings.
gracefully refined and dignified, as in tastes, habits, or literary style: an elegant young5) A four leged creature7) a word, phrase, or clause, usually a substantive, that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later, or occasionally earlier, in the same or in another, usually subsequent, sentence. In Jane lost a glove and she can't find it, Jane is the antecedent of she and glove is the antecedent of it.8) the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.9) possibly but not yet actually.10) a material object, service, etc., conducive to sumptuous living, usually a delicacy, elegance, or refinement of living rather than a necessity11) any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective.
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Origin:
1520–30; < Middle French pronom < Latin prônômen (stem prônômin- ). See pro-1 , noun
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Pronoun is always a great word to know.
So is auxiliary verb. Does it mean: So is noun. Does it mean: So is article. Does it mean:
any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationsh
a word used in construction with and preceding certain forms of other verbs, as infinitives or participles, to express distinctions of tense, aspect, mood, etc., as did in Did you go?, am in I am listening, have in We have spoken, or can in They can see.
any member of a class of words that are formally distinguished in many languages, as in English by taking the past ending in -ed, that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and
words that are formally distinguished by plural and possessive endings and that can function as subjects or objects; a person, place or thing
to bind by articles of covenant or stipulation:
a word used in construction with and preceding certain forms of other verbs, as infinitives or participles, to express distinctions of tense, aspect, mood, etc., as did in Did you go?, am in I am listening, have in We have spoken, or can in They can see.
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pronoun (ˈprəʊˌnaʊn)
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pron one of a class of words that serves to replace a noun phrase that has already been or is about to be mentioned in the sentence or context
[C16: from Latin prônômen, from pro- 1 + nômen noun]
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EtymonlineWord Origin & History
pronoun
1530, from pro- and noun; modeled on M.Fr. pronom, from L. pronomen, from pro- "in place of" + nomen "name, noun." A loan-translation of Gk. antonymia. Adj. pronomial is recorded from 1644.
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American HeritageCultural Dictionary
pronoun definition
A word that takes the place of a noun. She , herself , it , and this are examples of pronouns. If we substituted pronouns for the nouns in the sentence “Please give the present to Karen,” it would read “Please give it to her.12) successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune. |
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