- 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?
Homophones ware | wear | whereware wear where/weə(r)//wer/- ware noun
- The products include porcelain and ceramic ware.
- wear verb
- Don't wear that jacket—it's far too big!
- wear noun
- Comfortable and smart, this jacket is suitable for office wear.
- where adverb
- Where are you going on your next adventure?
- where conjunction
- He was free to go where he liked.
- 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.
- the place or situation in which
- We then moved to Paris, where we lived for six years.
Word OriginOld English hwǣr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch waar and German wo.
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