whom

Meanings

1. 1
   pron

   Used instead of 'who' as the object of a verb or preposition to ask which person.

   Whom did you invite to the party?

2. 2
   pron

   Used to refer to a person already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition.

   That is the man whom I spoke to earlier.

From Middle English whom, wham, from Old English hwām, hwǣm, from Proto-Germanic *hwammai, dative case of *hwaz (“who, what”). Cognate with Scots wham (“whom”), German wem (“whom, to whom”), Danish hvem (“who, whom”), Swedish vem (“who, whom”).

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