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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Whereabout

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.

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’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.