WHEREABOUTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whereabouts mean? 

• WHEREABOUTS (noun)
  The noun WHEREABOUTS has 1 sense:

1. the general location where something is

  Familiarity information: WHEREABOUTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHEREABOUTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The general location where something is

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

I questioned him about his whereabouts on the night of the crime

Hypernyms ("whereabouts" is a kind of...):

location (a point or extent in space)

 Context examples 

Whereabouts does the Thrush lay at Spithead?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

When father died, we were left very poor, but one day we were told that there was an advertisement in The Times, inquiring for our whereabouts.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was no one in the quaint old drawing-room, though it presented tokens of Mrs. Heep's whereabouts.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

‘Anybody supplying any information to the whereabouts of a Greek gentleman named Paul Kratides, from Athens, who is unable to speak English, will be rewarded.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I wonder whereabouts they will upset to-day.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To this end also he made each of us give our word of honor that we would publish or say nothing which would give any exact clue as to the whereabouts of our travels, while the servants were all solemnly sworn to the same effect.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Much of his past was unearthed, indeed, and all disreputable: tales came out of the man’s cruelty, at once so callous and violent; of his vile life, of his strange associates, of the hatred that seemed to have surrounded his career; but of his present whereabouts, not a whisper.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

How perfectly I remember my resolving to look for you upstairs, and setting off to find my way to the East room, without having an idea whereabouts it was!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

His brother, who usually works with him, has not appeared in this job as far as can at present be ascertained, although the police are making energetic inquiries as to his whereabouts.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)