whereabouts
/ˌ(h)wɛəɹəˈbaʊts/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Information about an elite athlete's future whereabouts, supplied to antidoping authorities to facilitate random out-of-competition testing.
Example Sentences
- "Whereabouts do you live?"
- "In the Middle Ages Rhabdomancers were employed to discover mines, and the whereabouts of precious stones."
- "the effectively functioning group of relatives is likely to be much smaller owing, for instance, to death of the older generation or far distant whereabouts of other relatives."
- "Further clues are provided by milk-floats bearing the legend 'Lord Rayleigh's Dairies: A Family Business', and a number of signs indicating the whereabouts of various departments of Lord Rayleigh's Farms."
- "It might feel like forever ago, but you're probably still wondering about the whereabouts of fireman-turned-deckhand Bobby Giancola, English second stew Julia d'Albert Pusey, and of course, Danny Zureikat, the deckhand who didn't quite make it to the end of the charter season. Well, we have answers—and some of their whereabouts might surprise you."
- "Mr. Zerón’s exact whereabouts is not known and he could not be reached for comment."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: wheraboutes
- Suffix: whereabout
Phrases
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form