pronounpro‧noun /ˈprəʊnaʊn $ ˈproʊ-/ ●●● noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINpronoun
Origin:
1400-1500 pro- + noun, on the model of Latin pronomen ‘pronoun’, from nomen ‘name’EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- And do this, to take something that might be clearly activated, she decides to look at pronouns.
- But the grammarian is tongue-tied without his labels: noun, adjective, verb, adverb, conjunction, pronoun.
- Familiar ways in which such participant-roles are encoded in language are of course the pronouns and their associated predicate agreements.
- She announced her decision this morning the pronoun she points to Mrs Thatcher within the textual world itself.
- The speaker's ambiguous pronouns, shifting their referents, helped foster this feeling of harmonious identity.
- This group of pronouns has weak forms pronounced with weaker vowels than the and of their strong forms.
- Yet while we make this point we must immediately see that these pronouns do not characterize the relationship.
WORD SETS
abbr., abbreviate, verbabbreviation, nounabstract noun, nounaccusative, nounactive, adjectiveadj., adjective, nounadv., adverb, nounadverbial, adjectiveaffix, nounantecedent, nounapposition, nounarticle, nounaspect, nounattributive, adjectiveaux., auxiliary, nounauxiliary verb, nouncase, nouncausal, adjectiveclause, nouncollective noun, nouncommon noun, nouncomparative, adjectivecomparison, nouncomplement, nouncomplex, adjectivecompound, nounconcord, nounconcrete noun, nounconditional, adjectiveconditional, nounconj., conjugate, verbconjugation, nounconjunction, nounconnective, nounconstruction, nouncontinuous, adjectivecontraction, nouncoordinate, adjectivecoordinating conjunction, nouncopula, nouncountable, adjectivecount noun, noundative, noundeclension, noundefinite article, noundemonstrative, adjectivedemonstrative pronoun, noundependent clause, noundeterminer, noundirect discourse, noundirect object, noundirect speech, noundisjunctive, adjectiveditransitive, adjectivedouble negative, noun-ed, suffixending, noun-est, suffix-eth, suffixfeminine, adjectivefinite, adjectiveform, nounfunction word, nounfuture, adjectivegender, noungenitive, noungerund, noungradable, adjectivegrammar, noungrammarian, noungrammatical, adjectivehistoric present, nounhomonym, nounhomophone, nounimperative, adjectiveimperative, nounimpersonal, adjectiveindefinite article, nounindependent clause, nounindicative, nounindicative, adjectiveindirect discourse, nounindirect object, nounindirect speech, nouninfinitive, nouninflect, verbinflected, adjectiveinflection, noun-ing, suffixintensifier, nouninterjection, nouninterrogative, adjectiveinterrogative, nounintransitive, adjectivelinking verb, nounmain clause, nounmasculine, adjectivemodal, nounmodal auxiliary, nounmodal verb, nounmodifier, nounmodify, verbmood, nounn., neuter, adjectivenominal, adjectivenominative, nounnon-finite, adjectivenon-restrictive, adjectivenoun, nounnumber, nounobject, nounparse, verbparticipial, adjectiveparticiple, nounparticle, nounpartitive, nounpart of speech, nounpassive, adjectivepassivize, verbpast, adjectivepast participle, nounpast perfect, nounperfect participle, nounperiphrasis, nounpersonal pronoun, nounphrasal verb, nounphrase, nounpl., plural, nounplural, adjectiveplurality, nounpossessive, adjectivepossessive, nounpredeterminer, nounpredicate, nounpredicative, adjectiveprefix, nounprefix, verbprep., preposition, nounprepositional phrase, nounpres., present participle, nounprogressive, adjectivepronominal, adjectivepronoun, nounproper noun, nounpunctuate, verbpunctuation, nounqualifier, nounquantifier, nounquestion tag, nounreflexive, adjectiveregular, adjectiverelative clause, nounrelative pronoun, nounreported speech, nounrestrictive clause, nounroot, nounrule, nounrun-on sentence, nounsecond person, nounsemicolon, nounsentence, nounsentence adverb, nounsingular, adjectivesolecism, nounsplit infinitive, nounstative, adjectivestem, nounsubject, nounsubjective, adjectivesubjunctive, nounsubordinate clause, nounsubstantive, nounsuffix, nounsuperlative, adjectivesyntactic, adjectivesyntax, nountag, nountense, nountransitive, adjectiveuncountable, adjectivev., variant, nounverb, nounverbal, adjectivevocative, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the possessive pronouns ‘ours’ and ‘mine’COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
a word that is used instead of a noun or noun phrase, such as ‘he’ instead of ‘Peter’ or ‘the man’ → demonstrative pronoun, personal pronoun the possessive pronouns ‘ours’ and ‘mine’· The effect of this intense focus on modes of address is that personal pronouns become unusually prominent.· He even refers to himself with the normal personal pronouns instead of the special ones customarily reserved exclusively for the emperor.
· The most notable is the relative pronoun that, which can only be used with a restrictive relative clause.
VERB· The art-historical etiquette for describing the nude is to use the pronoun it rather than her.· I use the pronoun I to make it a personal statement.· Somehow I have to use this for three pronouns, each with its special significance.· First, Arabic rarely uses independent pronouns because Arabic verbs are inflected for person, number, and gender.