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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
whereabouts
I.adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Whereabouts did you grow up?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Nobody knows whereabouts this occurs in the brain.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
present
▪ He knows she has been married since graduating but doesn't know her present surname or whereabouts.
▪ These were all recorded on film, but sadly the present whereabouts of this historic footage is unknown.
▪ Thanks to retired employee, Link has discovered the car's present whereabouts and brings you the story behind its restoration.
■ VERB
discover
▪ But how had he discovered her whereabouts?
know
▪ In larger hotels, knowing the whereabouts of staff, especially when you need them most, is often a nightmare problem.
▪ Anyone offered cheap tyres or know of their whereabouts are asked to contact the detectives at Dunganon 52525.
▪ Perhaps Sir Philip knew his whereabouts.
▪ He certainly knew the whereabouts of the Robemaker's workshops.
▪ It was such a big place and nobody seemed to know the whereabouts of the junior physician she was asking for.
▪ Simple variations include: Neither A nor B knowing the whereabouts of the keys.
▪ Do you know the whereabouts of Rose Hilaire?
▪ For two days, nobody had known the whereabouts of King Abdullah.
reveal
▪ The first court case took place in June, and Brenda was forced to reveal Robbie's whereabouts.
▪ Better yet, from the point of view of headquarters, was intelligence revealing the general whereabouts of an enemy unit.
▪ And negotiations over the sale of a house - signature of the various contracts would have inevitably revealed her whereabouts.
▪ The shipowner must be forced to reveal the whereabouts of the ship.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Despite numerous searches and enquiries, her whereabouts are still unknown.
▪ The whereabouts of the painting is still a mystery.
▪ The police have appealed for information concerning the whereabouts of the stolen car used in the robbery.
▪ The police received an anonymous tip about the suspect's whereabouts.
▪ They tried to torture him into revealing the whereabouts of the $90 million, but he didn't know anything.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alongside this opening of the official archives, interest is now increasingly turning to the whereabouts and availability of private papers.
▪ He was not at liberty to give Signor Gismondi's whereabouts.
▪ If one was sunk its whereabouts have eluded positive discovery and the outcome of the 1907 Committee's investigations is not recorded.
▪ Might there be some clue to her whereabouts in the church, she wondered?
▪ Not a soul raised a hand, stood up, confessed, or otherwise gave any indication of its whereabouts.
▪ Perhaps Sir Philip knew his whereabouts.
▪ The sheriff was unconcerned about their whereabouts.
▪ Updates on his whereabouts are broadcast on the radio, on billboards and through an 800-number.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whereabouts

Whereabout \Where"a*bout`\, Whereabouts \Where"a*bouts`\, adv.

  1. 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.

  2. Concerning which; about which. ``The object whereabout they are conversant.''
    --Hooker.

Whereabouts

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
whereabouts

"in what place," early 15c., from whereabout + adverbial genitive -s. The noun, "place where someone or something is," is recorded from 1795. Whereabout in this sense is from c.1600.

Wiktionary
whereabouts

adv. In, at or near what location n. (context plurale tantum English) Location; where something is situated.

WordNet
whereabouts
  1. n. the general location where something is; "I questioned him about his whereabouts on the night of the crime"

  2. adv. about where or near what place; "I don't know whereabouts the border will be drawn"; "whereabout do you live?" [syn: whereabout]

Wikipedia
Whereabouts

Whereabouts is the third major label album (and fourth overall) by Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith, released May 18, 1999 on Interscope Records. The album was a nominee for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo at the 2000 Juno Awards.

Usage examples of "whereabouts".

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.

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.

Remember that my mind was filled with memories of weird things, that I often found myself thinking of that mystic light which Hassan of Aleppo had called the light of El-Medineh - that light whereby, undeterred by distance, he claimed to be able to trace the whereabouts of any of the relics of the Prophet.