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- Whether -
pronounced [hweth -er]
pronounced [hweth -er]
conjunction
1. (used to introduce the first of two or more alternatives, and sometimes repeated before the second or later alternative, usually with the correlative or ): It matters little whether we go or stay. Whether we go or whether we stay, the result is the same.
2. (used to introduce a single alternative, the other being implied or understood, or some clause or element not involving alternatives): See whether or not she has come. I doubt whether we can do any better.
3. Archaic . (used to introduce a question presenting alternatives, usually with the correlative or ).
pronoun Archaic .
4. which or whichever (of two)?
Idiom
5. whether or no, under whatever circumstances; regardless: He threatens to go whether or no.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English hwether, hwæther, equivalent to hwe- (base of hwā who) + -ther comparative suffix; cognate with Old Norse hvatharr, Gothic hwathar
Can be confused with:
weather, whither, wither
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before 900; Middle English; Old English hwether, hwæther, equivalent to hwe- (base of hwā who) + -ther comparative suffix; cognate with Old Norse hvatharr, Gothic hwathar
Can be confused with:
weather, whither, wither
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/whether
