WHEREVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wherever mean? 

• WHEREVER (adverb)
  The adverb WHEREVER has 1 sense:

1. where in the world

  Familiarity information: WHEREVER used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHEREVER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Where in the world

Synonyms:

wheresoever; wherever

 Context examples 

Depend upon it, that is a circumstance which his servants take care to publish, wherever he goes.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Fully assured by these words that Mr. Edward—my Mr. Rochester (God bless him, wherever he was!)—was at least alive: was, in short, "the present gentleman."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Wherever you are you should always be contented, but especially at home, because there you must spend the most of your time.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Remember, wherever you are, you must be the lowest and last; and though Miss Crawford is in a manner at home at the Parsonage, you are not to be taking place of her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was no relief to turn round and find nobody; for wherever my back was, there I imagined somebody always to be.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"If this road goes in, it must come out," said the Scarecrow, "and as the Emerald City is at the other end of the road, we must go wherever it leads us."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Wherever his fangs struck for the softer flesh, they were countered by the fangs of Spitz.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It is a fair argument that wherever No. 3 came from is also the source of Nos. 1 and 2.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were in the way wherever he put them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Wherever a man is, says I, a man can do for himself.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)