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What: Definition and part of speech

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What

  1. interrog. adv. Why? For what purpose? On what account?
  2. pron., a., & adv. As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost?
  3. pron., a., & adv. As an exclamatory word: — (a) Used absolutely or independently; — often with a question following.
  4. pron., a., & adv. Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!
  5. pron., a., & adv. Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!
  6. pron., a., & adv. As a relative pronoun
  7. pron., a., & adv. Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; — called a compound relative.
  8. pron., a., & adv. Used adjectively, equivalent to the . . . which; the sort or kind of . . . which; rarely, the . . . on, or at, which.
  9. pron., a., & adv. Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw.
  10. pron., a., & adv. Whatever; whatsoever; what thing soever; — used indefinitely.
  11. 1interrog. adv. 1 Why? For what purpose? On what account?
  12. 1pron., a., & adv. 1 As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost?

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Whatever: Definition and part of speech

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Whatever

  1. pron. Anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another; anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all particulars that; — used both substantively and adjectively.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wharfage: Definition and part of speech

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Wharfage

  1. n. A wharf or wharfs, collectively; wharfing.
  2. n. The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.