Definition of: where

(hwâr) adverb
1. Interrogatively: a At or in what place, relation, or situation: Where is my book? b To what place or end; whither: Where are you going? c From what place; whence: Where did you get that hat?
2. Conjunctively: a At or in which or what place; at the place in which: where men gather. b To a place or situation in or to which; whither: Let us go where the mountains and the trees are. ♦Where is the correlative of there. In composition with a preposition, where has sometimes the force of an interrogative pronoun and sometimes that of a relative: Wherein was he wrong? Wherein he was much deceived.
—pron. The place in which: The accident occurred 100 yards from where we stood.
—noun Place; locality. [OE hwǣr]