conjunction, adverb
conjunction
1 in any place:
Sit wherever you like. * He comes from Boula, wherever that may be (= I don't know where it is).
2 in all places that
SYNEVERYWHERE:
Wherever she goes, there are crowds of people waiting to see her.
3 in all cases that
SYNWHENEVER:
Use wholegrain breakfast cereals wherever possible.
IDIOMS
or wherever (informal) or any other place:
tourists from Spain, France or wherever
adverb used in questions to mean 'where', expressing surprise:
Wherever can he have gone to?
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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 wherever is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does wherever appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — wherever appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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