/wɛəɹ/, /ʍɛəɹ/, /wɛə(ɹ)/
OriginFrom Middle English wher, from Old English hwǣr (“where”, literally “at what place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (interrogative pronoun).
- interrogative, not-comparableIn, at or to what place.
“Where are you?”
“He asked where I grew up.”
“Where are you going?”
- not-comparableIn what situation.
“Where would we be without our parents?”
- not-comparableIn, at or to the place (that) or a place (that).
“Stay where you are.”
“Go back where you came from.”
“Let's go where it's warmer.”
- not-comparableIn, at or to any place (that); wherever; anywhere.
“Please sit where you like.”
“Their job is to go where they are called.”
- not-comparable, relativeIn, at or to which.
“This is the place where we first met.”
“He is looking for a house where he can have a complete office.”
“That's the place where we went on holiday.”
- not-comparableThe place in, at or to which.
“He lives within five miles of where he was born.”
“This is a photo of where I went on holiday.”
“Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.”
- informal, not-comparableA situation or case in which.
“A function is where two variables are related.”
- not-comparableIn a/the situation, position, case, etc. in which.
“You cannot be too careful where explosives are involved.”
“Where no provision under this Act is applicable, the case shall be decided in accordance with the customary practices.”
- While on the contrary; although; whereas.
“And flight and die is death destroying death; Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.”
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“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 stu”
- informalThat.
“I read where they caught the guy.”
- interrogativeWhat place.
“Where did you come from?”
“Where are you at?”
“Where are you off to?”
- The place in which something happens.
“A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.”
“Finding the nymph a sleepe in secret wheare”
Formsquhair(alternative, obsolete) · quhar(alternative, obsolete) · quher(alternative, obsolete) · quhere(alternative, obsolete) · wheres(plural)