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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
where
where adverb, conjunction BrE [weə(r)] NAmE [wer] adverb 1. in or to what place or situation • Where do you live? • I wonder where they will take us to. •Where (= at what point) did I go wrong in my calculations? •Where (= in what book, newspaper, etc.) did you read that? •Just where (= to what situation or final argument) is all this leading us? 2. used after words or phrases that refer to a place or situation to mean ‘at, in or to which’ • It's one of the few countries where people drive on the left. 3. the place or situation in which • We then moved to Paris, where we lived for six years. Word Origin: Old English hwǣr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch waar and German wo. conjunction (in) the place or situation in which • This is where I live. • Sit where I can see you. •Where people were concerned, his threshold of boredom was low. •That's where (= the point in the argument at which) you're wrong. Word Origin: [where] Old English hwǣr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch waar and German wo.
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