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Whereabouts
whereabouts
1. If you refer to the whereabouts of a particular person or thing, you mean the place where that person or thing may be found. The police are anxious to hear from anyone who may know the whereabouts of the firearms... N-SING-COLL: with poss 2. You use whereabouts in questions when you are asking precisely where something is. Whereabouts in Liverpool are you from?... ‘I actually live near Chester.’—‘Whereabouts?’ QUEST 3. You use whereabouts after certain words, especially verbs and adjectives, to introduce a clause in which you mention precisely where something is situated or happens. I live in a village near to Germaine Greer and know whereabouts she lives. CONJ
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I. adverb also whereabout Etymology: Middle English wheraboutes (from wher aboute + -s, adverb suffix) & wher aboute, from where, wher where + about, aboute about — more at whence Date: 14th century about where ; near what place ~ is the house II. conjunction also whereabout Date: 14th century 1. obsolete on what business or errand 2. near what place ; where know ~ he lives III. noun plural but singular or plural in construction (also whereabout) Date: 1605 the place or general locality where a person or thing is their present ~ are a secret ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adv. & n. --adv. where or approximately where? (whereabouts are they?; show me whereabouts to look). --n. (as sing. or pl.) a person's or thing's location roughly defined. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. местонахождение, местопребывание her present whereabouts are (is) a secret —- ее местопребывание в настоящее время засекречено (держится в секрете) 2. где?, куда?, около какого места? whereabouts did you put it? —- куда вы это положили? whereabouts are you? —- где же вы? don't know even whereabouts to look for him —- не знаю даже, где искать его whereanent 1. шотл. в связи с чем; относительно чего ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun (приблизительное) местонахождение; can you tell me his whereabouts? - можете вы сказать мне, где его найти? 2. adv.; inter. где?; около какого места?; в каких краях? ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 adv spoken used to ask in what general area something or someone is (Whereabouts do you live?) ~2 n the place or area where someone or something is (sb's whereabouts) (His family refused to reveal his whereabouts. | the whereabouts of) (the whereabouts of the missing documents) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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