whereabouts

About 1.67 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adverb In, at or near what location.

   Whereabouts do you live?

2. noun A location; where something is situated.
3. noun Information about an elite athlete's future whereabouts, supplied to antidoping authorities to facilitate random out-of-competition testing.
4. noun ↑ Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (1989), p. 955; Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage (4th ed., 2015) p.880, Garner's Modern English Usage (4th ed., 2018) p.960
5. noun ↑ UPI Style Book & Guide to Newswriting (4th ed., 2004) p. 264; The Wall Street Journal Guide to Business Style and Us (2010) p. 249
6. noun ↑ The Economist Style Guide (12th ed., 2018) sv "plural nouns"

Similar words

where location destination positioning locator lot localization localisation fate address

Often followed by

of and unknown are in were to is was

Word family

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