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whomever

pronounattested in dialogue

  • United States//humˈɛvɚ//

Whatever person or persons (as object of verb or preposition).

pronoun

  1. 1

    Whatever person or persons (as object of verb or preposition).

    The letter is addressed to whomever it may concern.

    I'll marry whomever I want.

    To impose his will on whomever he sees comfortably settled.

    Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.

Etymology

From Middle English whomever; equivalent to whom + ever.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).