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Whether:
-conjunction 1. (used to introduce the first of two or more alternatives, and sometimes repeated before the second or later alternative, usually with the correlative or): It matters little whether we go or stay. Whether we go or whether we stay, the result is the same. 2. (used to introduce a single alternative, the other being implied or understood, or some clause or element not involving alternatives): See whether or not she has come. I doubt whether we can do any better. 3. Archaic. (used to introduce a question presenting alternatives, usually with the correlative or). -pronoun Archaic. 4. which or whichever (of two)? -Idiom 5. whether or no, under whatever circumstances; regardless: He threatens to go whether or no.
---- Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE hwether, hwæther, equiv. to hwe- (base of hwā who ) + -ther comp. suffix; c. ON hvatharr, Goth hwathar
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