Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. In or to whatever place: used red pencil wherever needed.
- adv. Where: Wherever have you been so long? See Usage Note at whatever.
- conj. In or to whichever place or situation: He seems to make enemies wherever he goes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- At whatever place.
Wiktionary
- adv. An emphatic form of where.
- conj. In or to whatever place; anywhere.
- conj. In all places; everywhere.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. At or in whatever place; wheresoever.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. where in the world
Etymologies
- From where + ever. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The DHS 'distorted view of terrorism, that eagerly applies the label wherever it is politically convenient, is very similar to the views of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.”
“We try to avoid the term wherever we can because it is a flash point," Johnson said.”
“How can children be allowed to watch/observe these horrifying images, yet watching adults sipping wine in a store or wherever is illegal?”
Maine law: children not to observe wine tastings | Dr Vino's wine blog
“To me one of the things that it's about is the phrase wherever you go there you are.”
“Though Hoke is anything but militant, he is a man of massive, unshakable dignity, and his insistence that he be treated as more than just "a back of the neck you look at while you goin 'wherever you want to go" causes Daisy to put aside her prejudices (whose existence she had never before acknowledged) and regard him not as a servant but as, eventually, a true friend.”
“If I had my druthers, Rogers would remain ... wherever he is ... and Bucky Barnes would continue to be Captain America for years to come.”
“He had fitted in wherever he found himself, been a favorite always and everywhere by virtue of holding his own at work and at play and by his willingness and ability to fight for his rights and command respect.”
“If not, you sledgehammer it in wherever you can make it fit.”
“She's French Canadian, a seemingly amiable and flexible sort who can fit in wherever she likes.”
“Third, and again wherever needed, governments must address fiscal consolidation.”
The Huffington Post: Olivier Blanchard: The Two Rebalancing Acts
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wherever’.
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
about, above, across, after, afterwards, again, against, all, almost, alone, along, already and 291 more...
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It's All Just Words.
quixotic, penisaurus rex, plibt, pot, polaroid, gemütlichkeit, hey! pooper scoop..., nowhere, anywhere, somewhere, elsewhere, wherever and 80 more...
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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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hard to sense
somewhat, somewhere, elsewhere, whereby, likewise, spite, ever, along, otherwise, whatever, whichever, hitherto and 116 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 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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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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Cohesion
even if, as though, when, although, because, as long as, as, until, before, than, whenever, while and 7 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wherever.
jtfmulder wherever Mar 1, 2008