Definition of "where"

where

/ʍɛə/

conjunction
1. In, at or to which place or situation.
  Quotations
  Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
  2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
  Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.
  1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 122
2. In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that).
3. In, at or to any place (that); wherever; anywhere.
4. In a position, case, etc. in which; if.
5. While on the contrary; although; whereas.
  Quotations
  And flight and die is death destroying death; Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.
  1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
  Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
  July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises
  Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
  2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
adverb
not comparable
1. Interrogative adverb, used in either a direct or indirect question: in, at or to what place.
  1. (with certain prepositions) What place.
  2. (informal) where are.
2. In what situation.
3. (relative) In, at or to which.
4. (fused relative) The place in, at or to which.
noun
plural wheres
1. The place in which something happens.
  Quotations
  Finding the nymph a sleepe in secret wheare
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 19

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