| which (wɪtʃ) |
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| —determiner |
| 1. | a. used with a noun in requesting that its referent be further specified, identified, or distinguished from the other members of a class: which house did you want to buy? |
| | b. (as pronoun): which did you find? |
| | c. (used in indirect questions): I wondered which apples were cheaper |
| 2. | a. whatever of a class; whichever: bring which car you want |
| | b. (as pronoun): choose which of the cars suit you |
| 3. | used in relative clauses with inanimate antecedents: the house, which is old, is in poor repair |
| 4. | as; and that: used in relative clauses with verb phrases or sentences as their antecedents: he died of cancer, which is what I predicted |
| 5. | archaic the which a longer form of which, often used as a sentence connector |
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