1 in or to what place or situation:
Where do you live? * I wonder where they will take us to. * Where (= at what point) did I go wrong in my calculations? * Where (= in what book, newspaper, etc.) did you read that? * Just where (= to what situation or final argument) is all this leading us?
2 used after words or phrases that refer to a place or situation to mean 'at, in or to which':
It's one of the few countries where people drive on the left.
3 the place or situation in which:
We then moved to Paris, where we lived for six years.
conjunction (in) the place or situation in which:
This is where I live. * Sit where I can see you. * Where people were concerned, his threshold of boredom was low. * That's where (= the point in the argument at which) you're wrong.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for where is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is where a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, where is tagged as adverb.
Does where appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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