Whereabouts

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Whereabout \Where"a*bout`\, Whereabouts \Where"a*bouts`\, adv.
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     1. About where; near what or which place; -- used
        interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you
        meet him?
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     Note: In this sense, whereabouts is the common form.
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     2. Concerning which; about which. "The object whereabout they
        are conversant." --Hooker.
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        [1913 Webster] Whereabout

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           A puzzling notice of thy whereabout.     --Wordsworth.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "whereabouts":
     abode, area, bearings, bench mark, district, emplacement, hole,
     in what place, in which place, latitude and longitude, lieu,
     locale, locality, location, locus, pinpoint, place, placement,
     point, position, region, site, situation, situs, spot, stead,
     where, whereabout, whither