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pronoun

noun
🔊/ˈprəʊnaʊn/
🔊/ˈprəʊnaʊn/
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  1. a word that is used instead of a noun or noun phrase, for example he, it, hers, me, them, etc.代词（代替名词或名词词组的单词）
    • demonstrative/interrogative/possessive/relative pronouns指示／疑问／物主／关系代词
    see also impersonal pronoun, indefinite pronoun, personal pronounTopics Languagea1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • plural
    • singular
    • first-person
    • …
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from pro- ‘on behalf of’, + noun, suggested by French pronom, Latin pronomen (from pro- ‘for, in place of’ + nomen ‘name’).