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Meaning of WHEREABOUT

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

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \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.
    
  2. \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.
    
 

 

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