whom
/huːm
/pronoun
Used instead of ‘who’ as the object of a verb or preposition: [interrogative pronoun]: whom did he marry? her mother, in whom she confided, said it wasn’t easy for her...
- You are never quite sure which actor is sitting where, or which voice belongs to whom.
- This will be a comfort to Cameron, over whom Vogts had appeared to blow hot and cold.
- The poor reader must be as confused as Media Watch about who has done what to whom.
Usage
On the use of who and whom, see who (usage).
Rhymes
- abstraction
- abstractional
- abstractionism
- abstractionist
- abstraction-monger
- abstractive
- abstractively
- abstractiveness
- abstractly
- abstractness
- abstract noun
- abstract of title
- abstractor
- abstractum
- abstrict
- abstricted
- abstriction
- abstruse
- abstrusely
- abstruseness
- abstrusity
- abstrusive
- absumption
- absurd
- absurdism