what of

English

Adverb

what of

1. What about; used to ask someone to consider something or someone that they have apparently not considered.

Derived terms

• what of it

Preposition

what of

1. (rare) Because of, due to.

   Synonym: what with

   • 1903 July, Jack London, “The Toil of Trace and Trail”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 152:

     What of the thin and rotten ice he had felt under his feet all day, it seemed that he sensed disaster close at hand, out there ahead on the ice where his master was trying to drive him.