Hypertext Webster Gateway: "whereabouts"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Whereabout \Where"a*bout`\, Whereabouts \Where"a*bouts`\, adv.
1. About where; near what or which place; -- used
interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you
meet him?
Note: In this sense, whereabouts is the common form.
2. Concerning which; about which. ``The object whereabout
they are conversant.'' --Hooker.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Whereabout \Where"a*bout`\, Whereabouts \Where"a*bouts`\, n.
The place where a person or thing is; as, they did not know
his whereabouts. --Shak.
A puzzling notice of thy whereabout. --Wordsworth.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
whereabouts
n : the general location where something is; "I questioned him
about his whereabouts on the night of the crime"
adv : about where or near what place; "I don't know whereabouts
the border will be drawn"; "whereabout do you live?"
[syn: {whereabout}]
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