Definition/Meaning of which

• English - Determiner: which What , of those mentioned or implied ( used interrogatively ). Which song made the charts? ( interrogative ) What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied). which is bigger?; which is which ? ( relative ) The one or ones that . show me which one is bigger; they couldn't decide which song to play ( relative ) The one or ones mentioned . For several seconds he sat in silence , during which…
• English - Pronoun: which ( relative ) Who; whom; what (of those mentioned or implied). He walked by a door with a sign , which read: PRIVATE OFFICE . Their first song , which made the charts in 2004, is great . We've met some problems , which are very difficult to handle . He had to leave , which was very difficult . We have to protect the environment in which we live . No art can be properly understood apart from…
• English - Noun: which ( plural whiches ) An occurrence of the word which . 1959 , William Van O'Connor, Modern prose , form and style (page 251) The ofs and the whiches have thrown our prose into a hundred-years' sleep . 1989 , Donald Ervin Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, Paul M . Roberts , Mathematical writing (page 90) Is it not true , TLL asked of Mary-Claire, that people invariably get their whiches and thats right…
• Middle English - Pronoun: which which 1407 , The Testimony of William Thorpe , pages 40–41 And I seide , “Ser, in his tyme maister Ioon Wiclef was holden of ful many men the grettis clerk that thei knewen lyuynge vpon erthe . And therwith he was named , as I gesse worthili , a passing reuli man and an innocent in al his lyuynge . And herfore grete men of kunnynge and other also drowen myche to him , and comownede ofte…
• English - Alternative forms: whiche ( obsolete ) wich (Jamaican English)