Meanings
- pluralplural onlyusuallyA location; where something is situated.
Mr. Zerón’s exact whereabouts is not known and he could not be reached for comment.
2021 July 15, Ronen Bergman and Oscar Lopez, “Former Official Wanted by Mexico Takes Refuge in Israel”, in The New York Times, page A74 more examples
In the Middle Ages Rhabdomancers were employed to discover mines, and the whereabouts of precious stones.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 145the 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.
1962, Geert van den Steenhoven, Leadership and Law Among the Eskimos of the Keewatin District, Northwest Territories, London: Excelsior, page 54Further 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.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 375, about TerlingIt 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.
2020 September 4, “Here’s What the Season 1 Cast of 'Below Deck Med' Is Doing Now”, in Men's Health, Yahoo - pluralplural onlyusuallyhobbiesInformation about an elite athlete's future whereabouts, supplied to antidoping authorities to facilitate random out-of-competition testing.
The IPC reminds all athletes in their Registered Testing Pool to remain vigilant when it comes to filing and updating their whereabouts.
2021 June 11, “Nigerian athlete Roland Ezuruike receives 18-month ban for whereabouts rule violation”, in Press Releases, International Paralympic Committee
Origin
- Middle Englishwheraboutes
- Englishwhereabouts
From Middle English wheraboutes, equivalent to whereabout + -s (adverbial suffix).
More words from Middle English
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Bulgarian къде, местонахожде́ние
- къде (kăde)near what location
- местонахожде́ние (mestonahoždénie)location
Catalan parador
- paradorlocation
Chinese Mandarin 所在地, 所在
- 所在地 (suǒzàidì)location
- 所在 (suǒzài)location
Dutch waaromtrent, verblijfplaats
- waaromtrentnear what location
- verblijfplaatslocation
Estonian asupaik
- asupaiklocation
Finnish missä päin, missäpäin
- missä päinnear what location
- missäpäinnear what location
- olinpaikkalocation
- sijaintilocation
French jusque là, localité
- jusque làlocation
- localitélocation
German Verbleib
- Verbleiblocation
Hungarian merre, merrefelé
- merrenear what location
- merrefelénear what location
- holnear what location
- hollétlocation
Indonesian keberadaan
- keberadaanlocation
Italian dislocazione, posizione
- dislocazionelocation
- posizionelocation
- locationlocation
- dovelocation
Japanese 所在, 在所
- 所在 (shozai)location
- 在所 (zaisho)location
Korean 소재
- 소재 (sojae)location
Polish miejsce pobytu
- miejsce pobytulocation
Portuguese paradeiro
- paradeirolocation
Russian местонахожде́ние
- местонахожде́ние (mestonaxoždénije)location
Spanish paradero
- paraderolocation
Swedish vistelseort
- vistelseortlocation
Cite this entry
whereabouts. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whereabouts
“whereabouts.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whereabouts. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “whereabouts,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whereabouts.
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