English dictionary
whether
/'/hw//E//D//@/r/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
conjunction
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In case; if; -- used to introduce the first or two or more alternative clauses, the other or others being connected by <i>or</i>, or by <i>or whether</i>. When the second of two alternatives is the simple negative of the first it is sometimes only indicated by the particle <i>not</i> or <i>no</i> after the correlative, and sometimes it is omitted entirely as being distinctly implied in the <i>whether</i> of the first.
Source: webster1913
pronoun
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Which (of two); which one (of two); -- used interrogatively and relatively.
Source: webster1913