- relating to or playing the part of a pronoun
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pro•nom•i•nal
(prō nom′ə nl),USA pronunciation adj.
n.
pro•nom′i•nal•ly, adv.
- Grammarpertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun:"My'' in "my book'' is a pronominal adjective. "There'' is a pronominal adverb.
- Heraldrynoting the coat of arms on a quartered escutcheon: customarily occupying the first quarter and being the original coat of arms of the paternal line.
n.
- Grammara pronominal word.
- Late Latin prōnōminālis. See pronoun, -al1
- 1635–45
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pronominal /prəʊˈnɒmɪnəl/ adj
pro•noun /ˈproʊˌnaʊn/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Grammara word used as a replacement or substitute for a noun or a noun phrase, usually referring to persons or things mentioned in or understood from what has been written or said before, or which both speaker and listener have knowledge about:Pronouns in English include I, you, he, she, it, we, they, them, this, who, and what. Abbr.: pron.
pro•noun
(prō′noun′),USA pronunciation n.
Grammarany member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective.
- Latin prōnōmen (stem prōnōmin-). See pro-1, noun
- Middle French pronom
- 1520–30
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