WH-question

or wh-ques·tion

[ duhb-uhl-yoo-eych-kwes-chuhn ]

noun

, Grammar.

1. a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as

   Where do you live?

WH question

noun

1. a question in English to which an appropriate answer is to give information rather than to answer "yes" or "no": typically introduced by the word who, which, what, where, when, or how Also calledinformation question