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Where

//wɛəɹ// adv, conj, noun, pron, slang

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Adverb

1
In, at or to what place. interrogative, not-comparable
"Where are you?"
2
In what situation. not-comparable
"Where would we be without our parents?"
3
In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that). not-comparable
"Stay where you are."
4
In, at or to any place (that); wherever; anywhere. not-comparable
"Please sit where you like."
5
In, at or to which. not-comparable, relative
"This is the place where we first met."

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6
The place in, at or to which. not-comparable
"He lives within five miles of where he was born."
7
A situation or case in which. informal, not-comparable
"A function is where two variables are related."
8
In a/the situation, position, case, etc. in which. not-comparable
"You cannot be too careful where explosives are involved."

Conjunction

1
While on the contrary; although; whereas.
"And flight and die is death destroying death; Where fearing dying pays death servile breath."
2
That. informal
"I read where they caught the guy."

Noun

1
The place in which something happens.
"A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how."

Pronoun

1
What place. interrogative
"Where did you come from?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English wher, from Old English hwǣr (“where”, literally “at what place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (interrogative pronoun).

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