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where

  • /ˈwɛə/ England, UK
  • [ˈwɛə] England, UK
  • /ˈʍɛə/ England, UK
  • [ˈʍɛə] England, UK
  • /ˈwɜː/ England
  • [ˈwɜː] England
  • /wɛː/ British, England, Southern
  • /ˈwɛə/ British, England, Southern
  • /ˈweː/ Australia
  • [ˈweː] Australia
  • /ˈwe̝ə/ New Zealand
  • [ˈwe̝ə] New Zealand
  • /ˈwɪə/ New Zealand
  • [ˈwɪ̝ə] New Zealand
  • /ˈwiə/ New Zealand
  • [ˈwiə] New Zealand
  • /ˈwɛɚ/ Canada, US
  • [ˈwɛɹ] ~ [ˈwɛɹ̩] Canada, US
  • /ˈʍɛɚ/ Canada, US
  • [ˈʍɛɹ] ~ [ˈʍɛɹ̩] Canada, US
  • /ˈʍeɹ/ Scotland
  • [ˈʍeɹ] Scotland

Sounds like ware, wear (both wine–whine merger), weir, we're (both cheer–chair merger, wine–whine merger)

Where it comes from

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 *kʷ- (interrogative pronoun).

adverb quhar · quher · quhere

  1. interrogative, not comparable In, at or to what place. Where are you?

    Similar: whither

  2. not comparable In what situation. Where would we be without our parents?
  3. not comparable In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that). Stay where you are.
  4. not comparable In, at or to any place (that); wherever; anywhere. Please sit where you like.
  5. not comparable, relative In, at or to which. This is the place where we first met.
  6. not comparable The place in, at or to which. He lives within five miles of where he was born.
  7. informal, not comparable A situation or case in which. A function is where two variables are related.
  8. not comparable In a/the situation, position, case, etc. in which. You cannot be too careful where explosives are involved.

conjunction quhar · quher · quhere

  1. While on the contrary; although; whereas. And flight and die is death destroying death; Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.
  2. informal That. I read where they caught the guy.

pronoun quhar · quher · quhere

  1. interrogative What place. Where did you come from?

noun wheres · quhar · quher · quhere

  1. The place in which something happens. A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: hence, whither, whence, whereby, wherever, wherein, everywhere, anywhere, someplace, somewhere, whenever, after, here, whereabouts, because, though

Translations

Every language

adv at or in which place

Españoldonde, dónde
한국어어디 eodi
日本語どこ doko, そこ soko
中文哪裡 /哪里 nǎli, 哪兒 /哪儿 nǎr, 那裡 /那里 nàli, 那兒 /那儿 nàr
हिन्दीकहाँ kahā̃, किधर kidhar
Portuguêsonde, aonde
Françaisoù, d'où
Deutschwo, woher
Italianodove
Ελληνικάόπου ópou
Românăunde, de unde
Русскийгде gde, отку́да otkúda, куда́ kudá
Tiếng Việtđâu
العربيةحَيْث ḥayṯ
עבריתאֵיפֹה eyfó, הֵיכָן heykhan

adv legal: in the situation in which

Españoldonde
Portuguêsonde
Deutschwo
Românăunde

adv at what place; to what place; from what place

Españoldónde
한국어어디 eodi, 하처 hacheo
日本語何処 doko, どこ doko, どうなる dō naru
中文哪裡 /哪裏 /哪里 nǎlǐ, nǎli, 哪兒 /哪儿 nǎr, 哪 nǎ, 何處 /何处 héchù
हिन्दीकहाँ kahā̃, किधर kidhar
Kiswahiliwapi
Portuguêsonde
Françaisoù
Deutschwo
Italianodove
Ελληνικάπού poú
Românăunde
Русскийгде gde, отку́да otkúda
Tiếng Việtở đâu
العربيةأَيْن ʔayna, ʔayn
עבריתאֵיפֹה efó, מֵאַיִן me'áyin, הֵיכָן hechán

adv at or in what place

Españoldónde
हिन्दीकिधर kidhar
Portuguêsonde
Françaisoù
Deutschwo
Русскийгде gde
العربيةأَيْنَ ʔayna
עבריתאֵיפֹה

adv to what place

Españoladónde
हिन्दीकहाँ kahā̃, किधर kidhar
Portuguêsaonde
Deutschwohin
Русскийкуда́ kudá
العربيةإِلَى أَيْنَ ʔilā ʔayna

adv to which place or situation

Españoladonde
한국어-으로 -euro
日本語どこへ doko e
中文哪裡 /哪里 nǎli, 哪兒 /哪儿 nǎr
हिन्दीकहाँ kahā̃, किधर kidhar
Portuguêsonde, aonde
Françaisvers où
Deutschwohin
Italianoladdove
Ελληνικάοποίο opoío
Românăîncotro, unde
Русскийкуда́ kudá
עבריתלְאָן l’án

adv in what situation

Portuguêsaonde
Françaisoù
Deutschwo
Ελληνικάπού poú
Русскийгде gde
Tiếng Việtở đâu

adv wherever

한국어어디든지 eodideunji
日本語とこ toko
中文哪裡 /哪里 nǎli, 哪兒 /哪儿 nǎr
हिन्दीजहाँ jahā̃, जिधर jidhar
Françaisoù que
Italianoladdove

adv the place in which

Españoldonde
日本語場所 basho
हिन्दीजहाँ jahā̃
Portuguêsonde
Françaisoù
Deutschwo
Italianodove
Русскийгде gde
Tiếng Việtnơi, chỗ
العربيةحَيْثُ ḥayṯu
עבריתאיפה eifo

conj while on the contrary, although, whereas

한국어-지만 -jiman, -지마는 -jimaneun
Portuguêsenquanto
Françaislà où

noun the place in which something happens

Españoldonde
日本語何処 doko
हिन्दीजिधर jidhar, जहाँ jahā̃
Portuguêsonde
Françaisoù
DeutschWo
Italianodove
Tiếng Việtở đâu
العربيةأَيْن ʔayn

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@misc{where_2026,
  title = {where},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/where},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}