whereabouts
Étymologie
[modifier le wikicode]- Dérivé de whereabout, avec le suffixe -s.
Adverbe
[modifier le wikicode]whereabouts \wɛɚ.ə.baʊts\
- Vers où.
Nom commun
[modifier le wikicode]whereabouts \wɛɚ.ə.baʊts\ au pluriel uniquement
- Localité, domicile.
- Lieu où se trouve quelqu'un.
Much of his past was unearthed, indeed, and all disreputable: tales came out of the man's cruelty, at once so callous and violent, of his vile life, of his strange associates, of the hatred that seemed to have surrounded his career; but of his present whereabouts, not a whisper.
— (Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1885)
Prononciation
[modifier le wikicode]- États-Unis : écouter « whereabouts [wɛɚ.ə.baʊts] »