Whereabouts definition

wârə-bouts, hwâr-
About where; in, at, or near what location.

Whereabouts do you live?

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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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Approximate location.

Her whereabouts are still unknown.

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Near or at what place? where?
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(obs.) About or concerning which.
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(now rare) At, in, or near what place.

The lost hikers wondered whereabouts the cabin was.

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Origin of whereabouts

Whereabouts Sentence Examples

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

  • 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.

  • Nothing at all is known of his life, whereabouts, or occupations till the publication of the third book, which appeared in 1546, "avec privilege du roi," which had been given in September 1545.

  • 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.

  • 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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