Etimology
From Middle English wher, from Old English hwǣr (“where”, literally “at what place”), from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (interrogative pronoun).
conjunction
where
In, at or to which place or situation.
In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that).
In, at or to any place (that); wherever; anywhere.
In a position, case, etc. in which; if.
While on the contrary; although; whereas.
Examples
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.
I've forgotten where I was in this book, but it was probably around chapter four.
I hardly knew where I was going.
Synonym: whither
Stay where you are.
Go back where you came from.
Let's go where it's warmer.
Please sit where you like.
Their job is to go where they are called.
You cannot be too careful where explosives are involved.
Where no provision under this Act is applicable, the case shall be decided in accordance with the customary practices.
And flight and die is death destroying death; Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.
Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
Where Susy has trouble coloring inside the lines, Johnny has already mastered shading.
adverb
where (not comparable)
Interrogative adverb, used in either a direct or indirect question: in, at or to what place.
In what situation.
(relative) In, at or to which.
(fused relative) The place in, at or to which.
Examples
Where are you?
Where are you going?
He asked where I grew up.
Where did you come from?
Where are you off to?
Where are you at?
Where you at?
Where you going?
Where would we be without our parents?
This is the place where we first met.
He is looking for a house where he can have a complete office.
That's the place where we went on holiday.
Here's a picture of York, where I was born.
He lives within five miles of where he was born.
This is a photo of where I went on holiday.
noun
where (plural wheres)
The place in which something happens.
Examples
A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.
Finding the nymph a sleepe in secret wheare