Usually means: Question word inquiring about specifics.
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  1. what: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. what: Merriam-Webster
  3. what: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. what: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. what: Collins English Dictionary
  6. what: Vocabulary.com
  7. WHat, What, What, What, What, What, what, what, what, what, what, what, the-what: Wordnik
  8. what: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. what: Wiktionary
  10. what: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. what: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. what: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. what: Dictionary.com
  14. what: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. what: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The What, WHAT (AM), What (song), What: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. What: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. what: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. what: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. what: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. what: FreeDictionary.org
  22. what: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. what: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. What: Wordnik

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. what: ANIME AND MANGA GLOSSARY

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. WHAT: Vocabulary of Loss: Suicide, Grief, and Ethics

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. WHAT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. what: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. WHAT, wha't, what: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  (interrogative) In what way; to what extent.
adverb:  Used before a prepositional phrase to emphasise that something is taken into consideration as a cause or reason; usually used in combination with 'with' (see what with), and much less commonly with other prepositions.
noun:  (obsolete, uncountable) Something; thing; stuff.
noun:  (countable) The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what.
noun:  (countable) Something that is addressed by what, as opposed to a person, addressed by who.

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