Where·a·bout 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.”
Where·a·bout Where·a·bouts n. The place where a person or thing is; as, they did not know his whereabouts.
A puzzling notice of thy whereabout. --Wordsworth.
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whereabout
adv : about where or near what place; "I don't know whereabouts
the border will be drawn"; "whereabout do you live?"
[syn: whereabouts]