Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Pronoun
pronepronounce (-d, pronouncing)
pronoun, n. [L. prōnōmen < prō, in front, before + nōmen, name.] (webplay: sentence).
Anaphoric reference; function word; substitute for a noun; grammatical placeholder required by English syntax to be present.
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