Whereabout vs Abode - What's the difference?
whereabout | abode |
(archaic) About which; concerning which.
* Hooker
About where.
(obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:
(obsolete) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
* 1661 , , [http://archive.org/stream/a615775104worduoft/a615775104worduoft_djvu.txt The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond]
* (rfdate), (Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)
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(formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation.
* (rfdate), (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
(abide)
(obsolete) An omen; a foretelling.
* High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes . -
As an adverb whereabout
is (archaic) about which; concerning which.As a noun abode is
(obsolete) act of waiting; delay or abode can be (obsolete) an omen; a foretelling .As a verb abode is
(abide) or abode can be (obsolete) to bode; to foreshow; to presage .whereabout
English
Adverb
(-)- the object whereabout they are conversant
Derived terms
* whereabouts English pronominal adverbsabode
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) abod, abad, from (etyl) . For the change of vowel, compare ''abode'', preterit of ''abide .Noun
(en noun)- Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And with her fled away without abode .
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
- He waxeth at your abode here.
- of no fixed abode .
- Come, let me lead you to our poore abode .