/hwair"euh bowts', wair"-/ , adv.
1. about where? where?
conj.
2. near or in what place: trying to find whereabouts in the world we were.
n.
3. ( used with a sing. or pl. v. ) the place where a person or thing is; the locality of a person or thing: no clue as to his whereabouts.
[ 1400-50; late ME wheraboutes, equiv. to ME wheraboute (see WHEREABOUT) + -s -S 1 ]