where

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English

Alternative forms

• quhair, quhar, quher, quhere (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hwâr, wâr; IPA^(key): /ʍɛə/, /wɛə/
• (General American) enPR: hwâr, wâr; IPA^(key): /ʍɛɚ/, /wɛɚ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [weːɹ], [ʍeːɹ]
• Homophones: ware, wear (wine–whine merger)
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Conjunction

where

1. In, at or to which place or situation.
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   Synonym: (to which place; archaic or literary) whither

2. In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that).

3. In, at or to any place (that); wherever; anywhere.

4. In a position, case, etc. in which; if.

5. While on the contrary; although; whereas.
   • July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]

     Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.

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6. (informal) In which.

7. (informal) That.

Translations

Adverb

where (not comparable)

1. Interrogative adverb, used in either a direct or indirect question: in, at or to what place.
   1. (with certain prepositions) What place.

   2. (informal) where are.

2. In what situation.

3. (relative) In, at or to which.

4. (fused relative) The place in, at or to which.

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Noun

where (plural wheres)

1. The place in which something happens.

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Derived terms

Descendants

• Hawaiian Creole: wea

Anagrams

• Hewer, hewer, rehew