prefix which thing (NOTE: Some of the following words formed from whereare used in their formal meanings in legal documents.)
adv 1. (asking a question) in what place, to what place ○ Where did I put my glasses? ○ Do you know where the restaurant is? ○ Where are the knives and forks? ○ Where are you going for your holiday? 2. in a place in which ○ Stay where you are and don’t move. ○ They still live in the same house where they were living twenty years ago. ○ Here’s where the wire has been cut. 3. whenever ○ Use fresh tomatoes where possible. (NOTE: After where used to ask a question, the verb is put before the subject: Where is the bottle? but He doesn’t know where the bottle is.)
where
adv. [OE. wher, whar, AS. hwr; akin to D. waar, OS. hwr, OHG. hwar, war, wa, G. wo, Icel. and Sw. hvar, Dan. hvor, Goth. hwar, and E. who; cf. Skr. karhi when. rad.182. See Who, and cf. There.]
1. At or in what place; hence, in what situation, position, or circumstances; — used interrogatively. “God called unto Adam, … Where art thou?” Gen. iii. 9. See the Note under What, pron., 1.
2. At or in which place; at the place in which; hence, in the case or instance in which; — used relatively. “She visited that place where first she was so happy.” Sir P. Sidney. “Where I thought the remnant of mine age
Should have been cherished by her childlike duty.” Shak. “Where one on his side fights, thousands will fly.” Shak. “But where he rode one mile, the dwarf ran four.” Sir W. Scott.
3. To what or which place; hence, to what goal, result, or issue; whither; — used interrogatively and relatively; as where are you going? “But where does this tend?” Goldsmith. “Lodged in sunny cleft,
Where the gold breezes come not.” Bryant. Where is often used pronominally with or without a preposition, in elliptical sentences for a place in which, the place in which, or what place. “The star … stood over where the young child was.” Matt. ii. 9. “The Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” Matt. viii. 20. “Within about twenty paces of where we were.” Goldsmith. “Where did the minstrels come from?” Dickens. Where is much used in composition with preposition, and then is equivalent to a pronoun. Cf. Whereat, Whereby, Wherefore, Wherein, etc. Where away (Naut.), in what direction; as where away is the land? Syn. — See Whither.
1. At or in what place; hence, in what situation, position, or circumstances; — used interrogatively. “God called unto Adam, … Where art thou?” Gen. iii. 9. See the Note under What, pron., 1.
2. At or in which place; at the place in which; hence, in the case or instance in which; — used relatively. “She visited that place where first she was so happy.” Sir P. Sidney. “Where I thought the remnant of mine age
Should have been cherished by her childlike duty.” Shak. “Where one on his side fights, thousands will fly.” Shak. “But where he rode one mile, the dwarf ran four.” Sir W. Scott.
3. To what or which place; hence, to what goal, result, or issue; whither; — used interrogatively and relatively; as where are you going? “But where does this tend?” Goldsmith. “Lodged in sunny cleft,
Where the gold breezes come not.” Bryant. Where is often used pronominally with or without a preposition, in elliptical sentences for a place in which, the place in which, or what place. “The star … stood over where the young child was.” Matt. ii. 9. “The Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” Matt. viii. 20. “Within about twenty paces of where we were.” Goldsmith. “Where did the minstrels come from?” Dickens. Where is much used in composition with preposition, and then is equivalent to a pronoun. Cf. Whereat, Whereby, Wherefore, Wherein, etc. Where away (Naut.), in what direction; as where away is the land? Syn. — See Whither.
where
conj. Whereas. “And flight and die is death destroying death;
Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.” Shak.
Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.” Shak.
where
n. Place; situation. [Obs. or Colloq.] “Finding the nymph asleep in secret where.” Spenser. { Where´a•bout• , Where´a•bouts• }, adv.
1. About where; near what or which place; — used interrogatively and relatively; as whereabouts did you meet him? In this sense, whereabouts is the common form.
2. Concerning which; about which. ´The object whereabout they are conversant.´ Hooker. { Where´a•bout• , 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.
1. About where; near what or which place; — used interrogatively and relatively; as whereabouts did you meet him? In this sense, whereabouts is the common form.
2. Concerning which; about which. ´The object whereabout they are conversant.´ Hooker. { Where´a•bout• , 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.
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