Pronounced /(h)weərəbaʊts/ for meaning 1, and /(h)weərəbaʊts/ for meanings 2 and 3.
1.
If you refer to the whereabouts of a particular person or thing, you mean the place where that person or thing may be found.
The police are anxious to hear from anyone who may know the whereabouts of the firearms...
N-SING-COLL : with poss
2.
You use whereabouts in questions when you are asking precisely where something is.
Whereabouts in Liverpool are you from?...
‘I actually live near Chester.’—‘Whereabouts?’
QUEST
3.
You use whereabouts after certain words, especially verbs and adjectives, to introduce a clause in which you mention precisely where something is situated or happens.
I live in a village near to Germaine Greer and know whereabouts she lives.
CONJ