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Definition of impersonal pronoun noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

impersonal pronoun

noun
 
/ɪmˌpɜːsənl ˈprəʊnaʊn/
 
/ɪmˌpɜːrsənl ˈprəʊnaʊn/
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  1. a pronoun (in English, the pronoun ‘it’) that does not refer to a person or thing or to any other part of the sentence, for example in ‘it was raining’
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trait
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