WHICH

I. adjective see: who Date: before 12th century being what one or ones out of a group, ~ever , 3. — used as a function word to introduce a nonrestrictive relative clause and to modify a noun in that clause and to refer together with that noun to a word or word group in a preceding clause or to an entire preceding clause or sentence or longer unit of discourse II. pronoun Date: before 12th century what one or ones out of a group, ~ever , 3. — used as a function word to introduce a relative clause; used in any grammatical relation except that of a possessive; used especially in reference to animals, inanimate objects, groups, or ideas — used freely in reference to persons as recently as the 17th century , and still occasionally so used but usually with some implication of emphasis on the function or role of the person rather than on the person as such — used by speakers on all educational levels and by many reputable writers, though disapproved by some grammarians, in reference to an idea expressed by a word or group of words that is not necessarily a noun or noun phrase see: that