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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Whereabout  \Where"a*bout`\,  Whereabouts  \Where"a*bouts`\,  adv 
  1.  About  where  near  what  or  which  place  --  used 
  interrogatively  and  relatively;  as  whereabouts  did  you 
  meet  him? 
 
  Note:  In  this  sense  whereabouts  is  the  common  form 
 
  2.  Concerning  which  about  which  ``The  object  whereabout 
  they  are  conversant.''  --Hooker. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Whereabout  \Where"a*bout`\,  Whereabouts  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  whereabout 
  adv  :  about  where  or  near  what  place  "I  don't  know  whereabouts 
  the  border  will  be  drawn";  "whereabout  do  you  live?" 
  [syn:  {whereabouts}] 




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