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?

⇒ In this sense, whereabouts is the common form.

2.

Concerning which; about which.

"The object whereabout they are conversant."

Hooker.

 

© Webster 1913.


Where"a*bout` (?), Where"a*bouts` (?), n.

The place where a person or thing is; as, they did not know his whereabouts.

Shak.

A puzzling notice of thy whereabout. Wordsworth.

 

© Webster 1913.

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