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whereabouts

[hwair-uh-bouts, wair-]

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adverb

about where? where?

conjunction

near or in what place: trying to find whereabouts in the world we were.

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noun

(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 Middle English wheraboutes, equivalent to Middle English wheraboute (see whereabout) + -s -s¹

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Patterson asked about the whereabouts of churches ministering to.

Jeon implored the reporters not to divulge his whereabouts to his parents, whom he had told he was traveling somewhere else.

One is a system that tracks the whereabouts of the audience's heads.

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Patterson asked about the whereabouts of churches ministering to.

Jeon implored the reporters not to divulge his whereabouts to his parents, whom he had told he was traveling somewhere else.

One is a system that tracks the whereabouts of the audience's heads.

But few, if any, records exist from that time to detail that shroud's whereabouts.

The local news reported several days later that the suspect had not been apprehended and his whereabouts were unknown.

It hasn't been seen since, and its whereabouts are unknown.

Jerome may even open up about the whereabouts of energetic power centers, known as vortexes.

Our members will track down definitive information about the last known whereabouts of these works.

The family of the gardener occupies one wing of the house, but they declare they know nothing of their employer's whereabouts.

Pakistan has ignored this request, and fibs about the gangsters' whereabouts.

True cavers are a tight-knit group that do not readily share information about the whereabouts of holes in the ground.

His homeless clinic was alerted as to his whereabouts.

There whereabouts of the little dinosaur are still unknown.

What's really needed here is an easy way to obfuscate your whereabouts.

But the city's parks deparment cannot find it and is looking for clues to its whereabouts.

The test is about how quickly the mice can learn and remember the whereabouts of the platform.

The microchips emit electronic signals which are used to track the whereabouts of the cats.

He's hoping his website will eventually list the whereabouts of all the missing trees.

But tonight, the police said they had no clues as to his whereabouts.

There has been no official confirmation since of his whereabouts.

Lowell calculated where he thought the mystery planet should be and funded three separate searches for its whereabouts.

The discovery has raised some fascinating questions about the missing daredevil's whereabouts.

Coleman, whose present whereabouts is unknown, has these items.

It seems ridiculous that pirates can conceal the whereabouts of something as large as a ship.

More about color and atmosphere than location and whereabouts.

Our artistic activity was a reason they found out our whereabouts.

All efforts to discover his whereabouts were unavailing, and he was given up for dead.

Asking around nearby villages yielded no clue as to his whereabouts.

Sam knew the whereabouts of the village where they lived.

Dow for information regarding the man's whereabouts.

Still, posted pictures may give clues as to its whereabouts.

No laws are being broken, they say, so they refuse to disclose the names of the pilots or the whereabouts of their planes.

No tidings have been received of the whereabouts of these or the others, and no hopes are now entertained of their safety.

In fact, the whereabouts of the vessel are now unknown.

Heim said he learned of his father's whereabouts through his aunt, who has since died.

Tracking a customer's whereabouts is part and parcel of what phone companies do for a living.

Fenimore had provided no information on the whereabouts of two other suspects or on the rest of.

The second set of photographs was never made public and its whereabouts is not known.

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whereabouts (ˈwɛərəˌbaʊts)

—*adv*
1.	Also: whereabout at what approximate location or place; where: whereabouts are you?
2.	obsolete about or concerning which

—n
3.	(functioning as singular or plural) the place, esp the approximate place, where a person or thing is

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Word Origin & History

whereabouts

"in what place," mid-15c., from where + about + adverbial gen. -s (form whereabout is attested from c.1300). The noun is recorded from 1795.

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