Plural of where; locations, places, or the whereabouts of someone or something (usually in the phrase 'hows and wheres').
From Old English 'hwær' (at what place). The noun form is less common than the adverb; 'wheres' appears mainly in formal or archaic phrasing like 'whereas.'
'Whereas' is a legal word that opens thousands of contracts and laws, yet few people realize it literally means 'while in the condition that'—legal writing froze old grammar in place.
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