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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
whoever
pronoun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Whoever could be calling at this time of night?
▪ Give these clothes to whoever needs them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whoever

Whoever \Who*ev"er\, pron. Whatever person; any person who; be or she who; any one who; as, he shall be punished, whoever he may be. ``Whoever envies or repines.''
--Milton. ``Whoever the king favors.''
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
whoever

late Old English hwa efre; see who + ever.

Wiktionary
whoever

adv. (non-gloss definition: An emphatic form of) '''who'''. pron. whatever person or persons.

Usage examples of "whoever".

The purpose of those killings could only have been to dupe whoever was on the receiving end of those subconscious television messages into believing that this Abraxas character is some sort of Lone Ranger, spreading good wherever he goes.

I had to sit by while Acer got Eightball shipshape for whoever I would have to sell it to.

Whoever it was resorted to viral transfer, using adenovirus to transfer, splice, and mix human with chimpanzee DNA whole sequences at a time, a much faster process but haphazard.

I am a Dru, of the Drus of Alb, and whoever disobeys me will suffer the abiding curse of all the Gods for all time.

Rom had shared a rare moment of rapport in their guilty, private pleasure every time Dukat came to the bar with whoever his latest comfort woman was and regaled her with the story of Admiral Alkene, ending with a grandiloquent toast and salute to the mural.

I beat the bush to flush out whoever was behind my amnesia, I got you.

Whoever tried to squirt anhydrous prussic acid in my face when I left here made a second attempt later.

Whoever assails us is either too timid or too canny to do so directly.

Sir--During the last day or two several of the more Intelligent of my acquaintances have suggested that The Avenger, whoever he may be, must be known to a certain number of persons.

Further, whoever is baptized either receives something from the baptism or confers something on the baptism.

And thus whoever is baptized in Christ so as to be conformed to Him by Faith and Charity, puts on Christ by grace.

Whoever it was, he knew my beeper number, which was a whole lot more than I knew about him.

Whoever in the mists of time had first built my bothy had chosen its position well: it backed straight into an elbowed granite outcrop that sheltered it from the north and east, so that winter blizzards mostly leapfrogged over the top.

It says buick 8 on both sides of the engine block in big chrome letters, as if whoever made it was afraid of forgetting what the damn thing was.

The sidekick, or whoever she is, tugs a briefcase out of the limo and allows her armful of bumph to brim over on to the pavement.