adv
Meaning 1
In, at or near what location.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- Whereabouts do you live?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
whereabouts
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˌ(h)wɛəɹəˈbaʊts/
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/ˈ(h)wɛəɹəˌbaʊts/
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CMU ARPABET: W EH1 R AH0 B AW2 T S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: HH W EH1 R AH0 B AW2 T S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A location; where something is situated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Information about an elite athlete's future whereabouts, supplied to antidoping authorities to facilitate random out-of-competition testing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only, usually
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
the general location where something is
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I questioned him about his whereabouts on the night of the crime
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: location
History
Etymology
From Middle English wheraboutes, equivalent to whereabout + -s (adverbial suffix).
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: къде (kǎde) — near what location
- Dutch: waaromtrent — near what location
- Finnish: missä päin — near what location
- Finnish: missäpäin — near what location
- Hungarian: merre — near what location
- Hungarian: merrefelé — near what location
- Hungarian: hol — near what location
- Woiwurrung: intoorring — near what location
- Bulgarian: местонахожде́ние (mestonahoždénie) — location
- Catalan: parador — location
- Chinese Mandarin: 所在地 (suǒzàidì) — location
- Chinese Mandarin: 所在 (suǒzài) — location
- Dutch: verblijfplaats — location
- Estonian: asupaik — location
- Finnish: olinpaikka — location
- Finnish: sijainti — location
- French: jusque là — location
- French: localité — location
- German: Verbleib — location
- Hungarian: hollét — location
- Ido: ube — location
- Indonesian: keberadaan — location
- Italian: dislocazione — location
- Italian: posizione — location
- Italian: location — location
- Italian: dove — location
- Japanese: 所在 (shozai) — location
- Japanese: 在所 (zaisho) — location
- Kazakh: орналасқан жері (ornalasqan jerı) — location
- Kazakh: тұрған орны (tūrğan orny) — location
- Korean: 소재 (sojae) — location
- Polish: miejsce pobytu — location
- Portuguese: paradeiro — location
- Russian: местонахожде́ние (mestonaxoždénije) — location
- Spanish: paradero — location
- Swedish: vistelseort — location
Real reading context