where
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Etymology
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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English wher, quher, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English hwǣr (“where”, literally “at what place”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (interrogative pronoun). Cognate with Scots whaur (“where”), West Frisian wêr (“where”), Dutch waar (“where”), German wo (“where”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hvor (“where”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvar (“where”), Icelandic hvar (“where”); related to Old English hwā (“who”). More at who.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: hwâr, wâr, IPA(key): /ʍɛə(ɹ)/, /wɛə(ɹ)/
- (US) enPR: hwâr, wâr, IPA(key): /ʍɛɚ/, /wɛɚ/
(in accents without the wine–whine merger)Audio (US) (file)
(in accents with the wine–whine merger)Audio (US) (file)
(in accents with the wine–whine merger)Audio (UK): [wɛə] (file) Audio (file) - Homophones: ware, wear (in accents with the wine–whine merger)
Conjunction
where
- While on the contrary; although; whereas.
- (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- And flight and die is death destroying death; / Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.
- July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]
- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
- 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
- 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 stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:where.
- Where Susy has trouble coloring inside the lines, Johnny has already mastered shading.
- (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- At or in which place or situation.
- 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
- Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
- 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 122:
- Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:where.
- He is looking for a house where he can have a complete office.
- I've forgotten where I was in this book, but it was probably around chapter four.
- To which place or situation.
- The snowbirds travel where it is warm.
- Wherever.
- Their job is to go where they are called.
- (law) In a position, case, etc., in which.
- Where no provision under this Act is applicable, the case shall be decided in accordance with the customary practices.
Translations
while on the contrary, although, whereas
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at or in which place
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to which place or situation
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wherever
legal: in the situation in which
Adverb
where (not comparable)
- Interrogative adverb, used in either a direct or indirect question: at what place; to what place; what place.
- Where are you?
- Where are you going?
- He asked where I grew up.
- With the preposition from
- Where did you come from?
- In what situation.
- Where would we be without our parents?
- (relative) At which, on which.
- That is the place where we first met.
Translations
at what place; to what place; from what place
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at or in what place
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to what place
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from what place
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in what situation
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Pronoun
where
- The place in which.
- He lives within five miles of where he was born.
Translations
the place in which
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Noun
where (plural wheres)
- The place in which something happens.
- A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.
- (Can we date this quote by Edmund Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Finding the nymph asleep in secret where
Translations
the place in which something happens
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