whereabouts

where·a·bouts

near or at what place? where?
Obs. about or concerning which

Now Rare at, in, or near what place: the lost hikers wondered whereabouts the cabin was

[now usually with pl. v.] the place where a person or thing is: to know the whereabouts of a person

Also Rarewhere′about′

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whereabouts

adverb

About where; in, at, or near what location: Whereabouts do you live?

noun

used with a sing. or pl. verb

Approximate location: Her whereabouts are still unknown.

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Adverb

(not comparable)

In, at or near what location
Whereabouts do you live?

Noun

(plural only)

(plural only) Location; where something is situated.
The whereabouts of the escaped snake are unknown.

Origin

whereabout +"Ž -s

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Sentence Examples

If anyone knows the whereabouts of Josh, last name unknown, contact Miss Edith Plotke on 6th Street.
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.
He could not pursue; the whereabouts of his right was unknown, and after the battle his best officers felt rather dismayed than encouraged by the conspicuous lack of discipline.
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.

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