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WHEREABOUTS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The general location where something is
Example:
I questioned him about his whereabouts on the night of the crime
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("whereabouts" is a kind of...):
location (a point or extent in space)
Context examples:
Early that morning a peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes’ ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their whereabouts.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She has been married three years, and believes that her position is quite secure, having shown her husband the death certificate of some man whose name she has assumed, when suddenly her whereabouts is discovered by her first husband; or, we may suppose, by some unscrupulous woman who has attached herself to the invalid.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
