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say it: WER-uh-bowts
whereabouts is a noun meaning "the general location where something is". It is pronounced /ˈwɛɹəˌbaʊts/ — WER-uh-bowts. It carries one recorded sense.
the general location where something is
“I questioned him about his whereabouts on the night of the crime”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for whereabouts come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.