whence
Meaning of whence
- from what place or source.
whence does Parliament derive this power?
- from which; from where.
the Ural mountains, whence the ore is procured
Middle English whennes, from earlier whenne (from Old English hwanon, of Germanic origin) + -s3 (later respelled -ce to denote the unvoiced sound).
Information about whence
- It is an adverb.
- The plural form of whence is: whences.
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Hyphenation of whence
whence
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- whence is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Translation of whence
- German: woher
Words that rhyme with whence
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