where
About 397.28 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adverb In, at or to what place.
Where are you?
- adverb In what situation.
Where would we be without our parents?
- adverb In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that).
Stay where you are.
- adverb In, at or to any place (that); wherever; anywhere.
Please sit where you like.
- adverb In, at or to which.
This is the place where we first met.
- adverb The place in, at or to which.
He lives within five miles of where he was born.
- adverb A situation or case in which.
A function is where two variables are related.
- adverb In a/the situation, position, case, etc. in which.
You cannot be too careful where explosives are involved.
Similar words
hence whither whence whereby wherever wherein everywhere anywhere someplace somewhere
Often followed by
the he they it a there i we you she
Word family
wheres
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