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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishwher, fromOld Englishhwǣr(“where”, literally“at what place”), fromProto-West Germanic*hwār, fromProto-Germanic*hwar(“where”), fromProto-Indo-European*kʷo-(interrogative pronoun).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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where (notcomparable)

  1. (interrogative) In, at or towhatplace.
    Synonym:(to which place; archaic or literary)whither
    Where are you?
    He askedwhere I grew up.
    Where are you going?
    Where you going?(informal, 'be' verb omitted)
    I've forgottenwhere I was in this book, but it was probably around chapter four.
    I hardly knewwhere I was going.
  2. In what situation.
    Where would we be without our parents?
  3. In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that).
    Staywhere you are.
    Go backwhere you came from.
    Let's gowhere it's warmer.
    • 2013 July-August,Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, inAmerican Scientist, volume101, number 4:
      Energy has seldom been foundwhere we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
  4. In, at or to any place (that);wherever;anywhere.
    Please sitwhere you like.
    Their job is to gowhere they are called.
  5. (relative) In, at or to which.
    This is the placewhere we first met.
    He is looking for a housewhere he can have a complete office.
    That's the placewhere we went on holiday.
    Here's a picture of York,where I was born.(non-defining)
    Show me an examplewhere it happened that way.
  6. (fused relative) The place in, at or to which.
    He lives within five miles ofwhere he was born.
    This is a photo ofwhere I went on holiday.
    • 1967,Barbara Sleigh,Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published1993,→ISBN, page122:
      Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps towhere Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.
  7. (fused relative, informal) A situation or case in which.
    A function iswhere two variables are related.
  8. In a/the situation, position, case, etc. in which.
    You cannot be too carefulwhere explosives are involved.
    Where no provision under this Act is applicable, the case shall be decided in accordance with the customary practices.

Translations

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at what place; to what place; from what place
at or in what place
at or in which place
to what place
to which place or situation
in what situation
wherever
the place in which
legal: in the situation in which
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Conjunction

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where

  1. While on thecontrary;although;whereas.
    • 1595 December 9 (first known performance),William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene ii]:
      And flight and die is death destroying death;Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.
    • July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV ClubThe Dark Knight Rises[1]
      Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
    • 2013 June 14,Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 1, page18:
      Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined.Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
    • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:where.
    Where Susy has trouble coloring inside the lines, Johnny has already mastered shading.
  2. (informal)That.
    I readwhere they caught the guy.

Translations

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while on the contrary, although, whereas

Pronoun

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where

  1. (interrogative) What place.
    Where did you come from?
    Where are you at?(informal)
    Where are you off to?
    Where you off to?(informal, 'be' verb omitted)
    Do you knowwhere you came from?

Noun

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where (pluralwheres)

  1. Theplace in whichsomethinghappens.
    A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, thewhere, the why and the how.

Translations

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the place in which something happens

Derived terms

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all parts of speech

Descendants

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  • Hawaiian Creole:wea

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