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where⋅a⋅bouts

  [hwair-uh-bouts, wair-]
Use whereabouts in a Sentence
–adverb
1. about where? where?
–conjunction
2. near or in what place: trying to find whereabouts in the world we were.
–noun
3. (used with a singular or plural verb) the place where a person or thing is; the locality of a person or thing: no clue as to his whereabouts.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME wheraboutes, equiv. to ME wheraboute (see whereabout ) + -s -s 1
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where·a·bouts   (hwâr'ə-bouts', wâr'-)   
adv.  About where; in, at, or near what location: Whereabouts do you live?
n.   (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
Approximate location: Her whereabouts are still unknown.
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Word Origin & History

whereabouts  (adv.)
"in what place," 1450, from where + about + adverbial gen. -s (form whereabout is attested from c.1300). The noun is recorded from 1795.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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