Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. About where; in, at, or near what location: Whereabouts do you live?
- n. Approximate location: Her whereabouts are still unknown.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as whereabout.
- n. The place where one or where anything is; location; locality.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. the general location where something is
Etymologies
- whereabout + -s (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call Plainfield Detective Edwin Maldonado at (908) 753-3415 or Detective Manny Rivera at (908) 753-3008.”
“Of course, her only lead to its whereabouts is given her by Thomas Oscar Morrow, who we learn for the first time (I never heard it anyway) here is not his real name.”
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“Meanwhile, a businessman desperate to find his missing two-year-old grandson in "Suicide Watch" must determine whether the horrifying tale his junky son tells him about the boys whereabouts is a confession or a sick test.”
“Leaving the state unattended for five days when nobody knows your whereabouts is deriliction of duty.”
“Not providing the 2nd in charge with his 24/7 whereabouts is a State Security Issue that needs to be dealt with by the state legis.”
“Keeping track of its whereabouts is what worried me more than the weight: early Anheiser's.”
“(This deus ex machina solution to the problem of the pearl's whereabouts is among the boldest examples of coincidence, and there are many from which to choose, in London's fiction.)”
“Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .”
“Maybe the best way to find her whereabouts is to contact the foreign doctors who might have contact with the Chinese doctors.”
“I know I can look it up, but whereabouts is Mexhapati?”
“A man's vigilance over his partner's whereabouts is likely to be a key signal of violence against her.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whereabouts’.
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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hard to sense
somewhat, somewhere, elsewhere, whereby, likewise, spite, ever, along, otherwise, whatever, whichever, hitherto and 116 more...
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nominative case collection
wine stopper, pyre, roster, hamper, moleskin, elastic, pinnacle, facsimile, nook, plonk, contortionist, dismay and 342 more...
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kmalladi's favorites
edification, penchant, ablution, extricate, frank, triumvirate, trifecta, egregious, hoi polloi, articulate, antediluvian, brusque and 291 more...
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Favorite Words
quixotic, assonance, palindrome, plebeian, mezzanine, propinquity, etymology, antihero, intrepid, refractions, lawless, sesquipedalian and 237 more...
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Mimi
sober, rhetoric, oratory, ergo, venom, diaphragm, Medieval, piety, incognito, ruse, calamity, evidence and 251 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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St. Trinian's (2007)
Words from a 2007 'St. Trinian's' film.
wreath, lully, insufferable, pikey, ugly betty, posh totty, nitwit, dosser, concoction, teetotal, blight, namby-pamby and 21 more...
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Baying Wherewords
Where words go to die.
wherewithal, whereupon, somewhere, whereword, everywhere, nowhere, elsewhere, wheretofore, wherever, anywhere, whereabouts, whereas and 1 more...
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FEDCO
The opposite of the ABC list (prompted by my recent discovery of the awesome word ecballium)
stuffed, ecbatic, ecballium, guts, outset, whereabouts, putsch, nutsedge, sportsreader, weaponmaker, bedclothes, redcurrant and 6 more...
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simple & useful11
solemnity, accursed, commandeer, harmonium, melodeon, harp on, goggle eyed, slavishly, unmasking, trawling, compendium, impermanence and 64 more...
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