Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for What
what, pron. [OE hwæt; interrogative and relative pronoun.]
- Which statement; [interrogative as a request for information.]
- Which things; the kinds of things that.
- That which; the thing that.
- Which.
- Such; [intensifier for exclamatory phrases].
- Phrase. “What if”: suppose that; who knows the outcome should it be.
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