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whereabout
English
Etymology
where +? about
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???????ba?t/, /?w?????ba?t/
Adverb
whereabout (not comparable)
- (archaic) About which; concerning which.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- the object whereabout they are conversant
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- About where. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Derived terms
- whereabouts
See also
whereabout From the web:
where
English
Alternative forms
- quhair, quhar, quher, quhere (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English where, wher, whare, whar, hwere, hwer, hware, hwar, from Old English hw?r (“where”, literally “at what place”), from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?o- (interrogative pronoun). Cognate with Scots whaur (“where”), Saterland Frisian wier (“where”), West Frisian wêr (“where”), Dutch waar (“where”), German Low German waar (“where”), German wo (“where”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hvor (“where”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvar (“where”), Icelandic hvar (“where”); related to Old English hw? (“who”). More at who.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hwâr, wâr, IPA(key): /???(?)/, /w??(?)/
- (General American) enPR: hwâr, wâr, IPA(key): /????/, /w???/
- (in accents without the wine–whine merger)
- (in accents with the wine–whine merger)
- (in accents with the wine–whine merger)
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophones: ware, wear (in accents with the wine–whine merger)
Conjunction
where
- While on the contrary; although; whereas.
- July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]
- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:where.
- July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]
- At or in which place or situation.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:where.
- To which place or situation.
- Synonym: (archaic or literary) whither
- Wherever.
- In a position, case, etc., in which, if.
Translations
Adverb
where (not comparable)
- Interrogative adverb, used in either a direct or indirect question: at what place; to what place; what place.
- Where are you?
- Where are you going?
- He asked where I grew up.
- With the preposition from
- Where did you come from?
- In what situation.
- Where would we be without our parents?
- (relative) At which, on which.
- That is the place where we first met.
Translations
Pronoun
where
- The place in which.
- He lives within five miles of where he was born.
Translations
Noun
where (plural wheres)
- The place in which something happens.
- A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.
Translations
Derived terms
Anagrams
- Hewer, hewer, rehew
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