where

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   In, at, or to what place.

   Where do you live?

2. 2
   adv

   In, at, or to the place that.

   Please stay where you are.

3. 3
   adv

   In, at, or to which.

   This is the restaurant where we first met.

4. 4
   adv

   In what situation or position.

   Where would we be without our friends?

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷís Proto-Germanic *hwaz Proto-Indo-European *-r Proto-Germanic *-r Proto-Germanic *hwar Proto-West Germanic *hwār Old English hwǣr Middle English wher English where From Middle English wher, from Old English hwǣr (“where”, literally “at what place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (interrogative pronoun).

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