whereabouts
Anglais modifier
Étymologie modifier
- Dérivé de whereabout, avec le suffixe -s.
Adverbe modifier
whereabouts \wɛɚ.ə.baʊts\
- Vers où.
Nom commun modifier
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
- États-Unis : écouter « whereabouts [wɛɚ.ə.baʊts] »