Whereabouts meaning

wâr'ə-bouts', hwâr'-
About where; in, at, or near what location.

Whereabouts do you live?

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Approximate location.

Her whereabouts are still unknown.

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Near or at what place? where?
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About or concerning which.
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At, in, or near what place.

The lost hikers wondered whereabouts the cabin was.

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The place where a person or thing is.

To know the whereabouts of a person.

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In, at or near what location.

Whereabouts do you live?

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(plural only) Location; where something is situated.

The whereabouts of the escaped snake are unknown.

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Origin of whereabouts

whereabout +"Ž -s

Sentence Examples

  • If anyone knows the whereabouts of Josh, last name unknown, contact Miss Edith Plotke on 6th Street.

  • The cat declined a lap-offer in favor of the purple rocker, Martha's chair, as if to question the whereabouts of her missing friend.

  • There was only one Tracker in existence that was able to pinpoint the whereabouts of a Watcher or Other, the two sets of immortals always at each others' throats.

  • He heard their whereabouts just before she gave a strangled cry and collided with one of them.

  • Its whereabouts is thus, to a great extent, concealed both from enemies searching for spiders and from insects suitable for food; and its open meshwork of strong threads makes it much less liable to be beaten down by rain or torn to shreds by winds than if it were a flat sheet of closely woven silk.

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