whereverwher‧ev‧er /weərˈevə $ werˈevər/ ●●● S2 adverb 
Children will play wherever they happen to be. Sit wherever you like.... or wherever (=used to emphasize that you are talking about any place and not a specific place) Dublin people dress more individually than people in London or wherever.2in all places that: She is shadowed by detectives wherever she goes. I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible (=at all times when it is possible).3used at the beginning of a question to show surprise: ‘Wherever did she find that?’ Daisy wondered.4wherever that is/may be used to say that you do not know where a place or town is or have never heard of it: She wants to move to Far Flatley, wherever that is.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Wherever did you get that idea?
- You can sit wherever you want.
- Free treatment through the Poor Law was still avoided by the poor wherever possible.
- I wonder if the law would require him to go home -- wherever home is -- after three years or so.
- It was the urban mob which ended the hesitations of the official classes wherever resistance was a possibility.
- Mary Jo, wherever you are, this is dedicated to you.
- None the less, start out with a master plan and wherever possible, use it.
- The one Moon reflects itself wherever there is a sheet of water.
- They thus called for a managerial policy to facilitate promotion earlier in life, linked to flexible retirement wherever possible.
- You can use the cell phone wherever the cell sites are in use.
Longman Language Activatoreverywhere in a place or country
also every place American informal in or to every part of a place or country: · The whole street was flooded - there was water everywhere.· Where did you find my keys? I've been looking everywhere for them.· You see bank machines everywhere nowadays.· They go every place together.everywhere in: · There were beautiful rice fields everywhere in the region.everywhere else (=in every other place): · Doctors in Colorado, like doctors everywhere else, did not have enough of the vaccine.
in or to many different parts of a town, country etc, especially when you want to say that you have been to many places: · We spent two weeks in Mexico and traveled all over.· The choir has sung in concerts all over the country.· Katie's toys were spread out all over the floor.all over the place: · He went all over the place looking for a shop selling corkscrews but couldn't find one.
in every part of an area or place: · You could hear their laughter throughout the building.· The house is in excellent condition with fitted carpets throughout.
if you find a particular thing wherever you go or look , you find it in all the different places that you go to or look in: · There seem to be fountains wherever you look in this park.· He seems to make friends wherever he goes.
informal in many different places, without any particular plan or pattern: · We lived here, there, and everywhere as I was growing up.· The adults sat on the porch while the children ran here, there, and everywhere.
in every part of a country: nationwide strike/demonstration/campaign: · Workers held nationwide strikes and demonstrations all over Spain.nationwide search/hunt/study/survey: · A nationwide hunt was launched yesterday for the killer of 13-year-old Nicola Jones.
happening in many places - use this especially about problems or bad situations that affect many areas or many countries: · There has been widepread flooding in Germany, and the rivers are still rising.· Government corruption is widespread in the country.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible (=at all times when it is possible).COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=used to emphasize that you are talking about any place and not a specific place) Dublin people dress more individually than people in London or wherever.
Dublin people dress more individually than people in London or wherever. I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible (=at all times when it is possible).· Choose wholemeal varieties of flour and pasta, where possible.
· You can park wherever you want.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Obviously remove or reduce the background noise wherever possible.· But curricular and assessment arrangements should aim to raise expectations and to help to narrow the gap wherever possible.· Perhaps we should be asking our local authorities to install wheelchair access gates in place of ordinary kissing gates wherever possible.· None the less, start out with a master plan and wherever possible, use it.· Purely in order to minimise costs, drafting meetings should be kept to a minimum and should wherever possible be restricted.· We will however be publishing a special feature on the preliminary and first rounds, carrying score-cards and photographs wherever possible.· In designing the programme, we have tried to emphasise the vocational aspects of the core skills modules wherever possible.· In order to eliminate price exposure on other precious metal stocks we hedge the price wherever possible by forward sales.
VERB· These warrants allow us to go wherever we wish.· Here I can go wherever I want to without asking for permission...· Working with missionaries, he went wherever he was needed, any time of the day or night.· She was joining the Navy and she would go wherever they sent her.· We were given permission to go wherever we wanted and cut down any tree that might suit us.· It is a free agent once released into a burrow and is free to go wherever it feels inclined.· My mind goes wherever it wants to go.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1to or at any place, position, or situation: - Down the golden road, London and the world, life, whatever you like.
- I said they can call themselves anything they like, and I would still not engage one.
- I wished I could go back to the other way, when we could just do whatever we liked.
- Once you're online, you can use whatever you like.
- That is to say put anything you like on them, but don t be surprised if some one else reads them.
- They can do whatever they like provided that it is what the Treasury has already agreed.
- We can ask him whatever we like.
Children will play wherever they happen to be. Sit wherever you like.... or wherever (=used to emphasize that you are talking about any place and not a specific place) Dublin people dress more individually than people in London or wherever.2in all places that: She is shadowed by detectives wherever she goes. I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible (=at all times when it is possible).3used at the beginning of a question to show surprise: ‘Wherever did she find that?’ Daisy wondered.4wherever that is/may be used to say that you do not know where a place or town is or have never heard of it: She wants to move to Far Flatley, wherever that is.