where
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wâr
enpr: hwâr
ipa: /wɛə/
ipa: /ʍɛə/
enpr: wâr
enpr: hwâr
ipa: /wɛəɹ/
ipa: /ʍɛəɹ/
ipa: [weːɹ]
ipa: [ʍeːɹ]
ipa: /weː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /weə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /wiə/
ipa: /ʍeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: ware
homophone: wear (both wine–whine merger)
homophone: weir
homophone: we're (both cheer–chair merger, wine–whine merger)
homophone: whir (fair–fur merger)
homophone: were (fair–fur merger, wine–whine merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wheres
form: quhair
form: quhar
form: quher
form: quhere
Etymology: From Middle English wher, from Old English hwǣr (“where”, literally “at what place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (interrogative pronoun).
Senses: examples: text: A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.
text: Finding the nymph a sleepe in secret wheare
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 19:
glosses: The place in which something happens.
Derived terms: sense: all parts of speech
word: anywhere
sense: all parts of speech
word: before one knows where one is
sense: all parts of speech
word: black where it counts
sense: all parts of speech
word: boldly go where no man has gone before
sense: all parts of speech
word: credit where credit's due
sense: all parts of speech
word: don't get your honey where you make your money
sense: all parts of speech
word: don't get your meat where you get your bread
sense: all parts of speech
word: don't shit where you eat
sense: all parts of speech
word: drive a nail where it will go
sense: all parts of speech
word: elsewhere
sense: all parts of speech
word: everywhere
sense: all parts of speech
word: every where
sense: all parts of speech
word: every which where
sense: all parts of speech
word: fools rush in where angels fear to tread
sense: all parts of speech
word: where one is sitting
sense: all parts of speech
word: where one sits
sense: all parts of speech
word: give credit where credit is due
sense: all parts of speech
word: go back to where you came from
sense: all parts of speech
word: go hunting where the ducks are
sense: all parts of speech
word: gold is where you find it
sense: all parts of speech
word: home is where the heart is
sense: all parts of speech
word: home is where you hang your hat
sense: all parts of speech
word: hunt where the ducks are
sense: all parts of speech
word: hunt where the ducks were
sense: all parts of speech
word: know where one stands
sense: all parts of speech
word: know where the bodies are buried
sense: all parts of speech
word: let the chips fall where they may
sense: all parts of speech
word: let the dice fall where they may
sense: all parts of speech
word: let the door hit you where the good Lord split you
sense: all parts of speech
word: meet someone where they are
sense: all parts of speech
word: not know where to turn
sense: all parts of speech
word: put one's money where one's mouth is
sense: all parts of speech
word: start from where you are
sense: all parts of speech
word: tell someone where to get off
sense: all parts of speech
word: tell someone where to shove it
sense: all parts of speech
word: there's more where that came from
sense: all parts of speech
word: this is where I came in
sense: all parts of speech
word: this is where we came in
sense: all parts of speech
word: we are where we are
sense: all parts of speech
word: whereabouts
sense: all parts of speech
word: whereafter
sense: all parts of speech
word: whereagainst
sense: all parts of speech
word: wherealong
sense: all parts of speech
word: where are the snows of yesteryear
sense: all parts of speech
word: where are the toilets
sense: all parts of speech
word: where are we
sense: all parts of speech
word: where are we going
sense: all parts of speech
word: where are you
sense: all parts of speech
word: where are you from
sense: all parts of speech
word: where are your parents
sense: all parts of speech
word: whereas
sense: all parts of speech
word: whereat
sense: all parts of speech
word: where away
sense: all parts of speech
word: whereby
sense: all parts of speech
word: where can I find a hotel
sense: all parts of speech
word: where does it hurt
sense: all parts of speech
word: where does this bus go
sense: all parts of speech
word: where does this train go
sense: all parts of speech
word: where do I sign up
sense: all parts of speech
word: where do you live
sense: all parts of speech
word: where do you live at
sense: all parts of speech
word: wherefore
sense: all parts of speech
word: wherefrom
sense: all parts of speech
word: where got
sense: all parts of speech
word: where have you been
sense: all parts of speech
word: where I come from
sense: all parts of speech
word: wherein
sense: all parts of speech
word: whereinto
sense: all parts of speech
word: where is the lie
sense: all parts of speech
word: where is the toilet
sense: all parts of speech
word: where it counts
sense: all parts of speech
word: where it's at
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word: whereness
sense: all parts of speech
word: wherenot
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word: whereof
sense: all parts of speech
word: whereon
sense: all parts of speech
word: where one lives
sense: all parts of speech
word: whereover
sense: all parts of speech
word: wheresoever
sense: all parts of speech
word: where someone is coming from
sense: all parts of speech
word: where someone lives
sense: all parts of speech
word: wherethan
sense: all parts of speech
word: where the heck
sense: all parts of speech
word: where the puck is going
sense: all parts of speech
word: where the puck is heading
sense: all parts of speech
word: where there is a will
sense: all parts of speech
word: where there is a will there is a way
sense: all parts of speech
word: where there's a will there's a way
sense: all parts of speech
word: where there's muck there's brass
sense: all parts of speech
word: where there's no sense there's no feeling
sense: all parts of speech
word: where the shoe pinches
sense: all parts of speech
word: where the sun doesn't shine
sense: all parts of speech
word: where the sun don't shine
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word: wherethrough
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word: whereto
sense: all parts of speech
word: wheretoward
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word: whereunder
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word: whereuntil
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word: whereunto
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word: whereupon
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word: wherever
sense: all parts of speech
word: wherewith
sense: all parts of speech
word: wherewithal
sense: all parts of speech
word: wherewithin
sense: all parts of speech
word: where you at
sense: all parts of speech
word: where you stand depends on where you sit
sense: all parts of speech
word: write-what-where
sense: all parts of speech
word: you don't get your nookie where you get your cookies
sense: all parts of speech
word: you don't know where it's been