where

WHERE, adverb 1. At which place or places. She visited the place where first she was so happy-- In all places where I record my name, I will come to thee and I will bless thee. Exodus 20:21. 2. At or in what place. Adam, where art thou? Genesis 3:9. 3. At the place in which. WHERE I though the remnant of my age should have been cherishd by her child-like duty. 4. Whither; to what place, or from what place. where are you going? where are you from? [These uses of where are common, and the first cannot be condemned as vulgar.] Any where in any place. I sought the man, but could not find him any where [Note. where seems to have been originally a noun, and was so used by Spenser. He shall find no where safe to him. In this sense, it is obsolete; yet it implies place, its original signification.]