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WHO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services
Synonyms:
W.H.O.; WHO; World Health Organization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("WHO" is a kind of...):
UN agency; United Nations agency (an agency of the United Nations)
Context examples:
“Very well, then, we wish to see his rooms,” said the lawyer; and when the woman began to declare it was impossible, “I had better tell you who this person is,” he added.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Let us think of those among our absent friends who are more cheerfully employed,” cried Emma.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
"Well, who am I?" he asked.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Scientists have found that people who drink coffee appear to live longer.
(Drink Coffee for a Longer Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
He wanted to be affectionate to this sister, who was good, and who, in her way, he knew, loved him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The four Indians laughed more loudly, while even the man who had been bitten began to laugh.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“Now let me hear some more about the Crorkindills,” said Peggotty, who was not quite right in the name yet, “for I an't heard half enough.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They were savages, all of them, who knew no law but the law of club and fang.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
He spoke aloud, after the manner of men who are much by themselves.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
“This is my friend and colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
