The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whereabout \Where"a*bout`\, Whereabouts \Where"a*bouts`\, adv.
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About where; near what or which place; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you meet him?
Note: In this sense, whereabouts is the common form.
Concerning which; about which. ``The object whereabout they are conversant.''
--Hooker.
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.
A puzzling notice of thy whereabout.
--Wordsworth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. 1 (context archaic English) About which; concerning which. 2 About where.
WordNet
adv. about where or near what place; "I don't know whereabouts the border will be drawn"; "whereabout do you live?" [syn: whereabouts]
Usage examples of "whereabout".
Likely, the creature had gone from the marketplace and told of her whereabouts to her true enemy, the Antlered One.
Ann Mitchell and Franco Magra have escaped with the assistance of persons unknown, using a strange type of metal melter, and are now at large, whereabouts unknown!
Once there, it had proved surprisingly difficult to find a boatman who would either admit to knowing the whereabouts of San Vitale in Palude, or show himself willing to take them to its shores.
And because supper time approached nigh, when as he should be reproved of too much negligence, he tooke a halter to hang himselfe: but his wife perceiving whereabout he went, ran incontinently to him, and taking the halter in both her hands, stopped him of his purpose, saying, O husband, are you out of your writs?
The reason the name interested The Shadow was because Sheff, alone of the men Cardona listed, had an ironclad alibi - on a night when other crooks had difficulty proving their whereabouts.
Hard, Strete Barton was the one destination which might yield some information as to his whereabouts.
Any information you are given to-night, concerning the whereabouts of Jack Shaftoe, shall come, not from some suppositious prisoner, but from me.
The whereabouts of her two daughters, Tenia age sixteen, and Reya age eighteen, are unknown.
Now, I know that, aside from myself, the Warders at the Tower, Master Sean, and two other people, no one in London knew of my whereabouts or could have learned it by other than thaumaturgical means.
Police Station in downtown Albuquerque, Agents Turney and Foster filed an official request to be informed immediately if local or State Police discovered the whereabouts of Dr.
In fact, Commander R turned out to be quite helpful when Traskeluk, emboldened by her unmilitary attitude and taking another chance, asked her about the whereabouts of his shipmate and fellow survivor, good old Nifty Gift.
I used to linger about them, half expecting they would speak and tell me their stony secrets whisper heavily the whereabouts of their mouldering fellows, still unrecovered from the soil.
The Werwolf had assured him there were no leads he could pick up to give him the whereabouts of the forger, and that was that.
Cooper said abruptly, hoping to silence Guest who was already wittering and babbling about the whereabouts of the missing van.
Miss Coblenz has allowed herself to drift into the hands of a particularly inscrutable and shadowy young man of Afridi blood and her present whereabouts is precisely unknown.