PRONOUN, PRONOMEN, in grammar, a declinable part of speech, which being put instead of a noun, points out some person or thing.
Pronouns are divided into the six following classes, viz. Demonstrative pronouns; relative pronouns; possessive pronouns; genitive pronouns, or such as denote a person's country, as nostris, vestris, and eujus; interrogative pronouns; and reciprocal pronouns.