Whereto

adv

adv ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    To what; to which place, whither? archaic, interrogative, not-comparable
  2. 2
    To what end; wherefore? interrogative, not-comparable, obsolete
  3. 3
    To which. archaic, not-comparable, relative

    "According whereto Xenophon describeth his gallant plantation at Sardis, thus rendred by Strebæus."

Synonyms

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onuponwhereforewhereuntowhereuponwhither

Example

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"No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty / enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, / Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is / earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam (whereto he / was converted) might they not stop a beer barrel? / Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, / Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. / O, that that earth which kept the world in awe / Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw!"

Etymology

From Middle English wherto, equivalent to where + to.

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