where

Where are you?

He asked where I grew up.

Where are you going?

Where you going? (informal, 'be' verb omitted)

I've forgotten where I was in this book, but it was probably around chapter four.

I hardly knew where I was going.

(interrogative) In, at or to what place.

Where would we be without our parents?

Stay where you are.

Go back where you came from.

Let's go where it's warmer.

Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.

2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:

In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that).

Please sit where you like.

Their job is to go where they are called.

In, at or to any place (that); wherever; anywhere.

This is the place where we first met.

He is looking for a house where he can have a complete office.

That's the place where we went on holiday.

Here's a picture of York, where I was born. (non-defining)

Show me an example where it happened that way.

He lives within five miles of where he was born.

This is a photo of where I went on holiday.

Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122:

(fused relative) The place in, at or to which.

A function is where two variables are related.

(fused relative, informal) A situation or case in which.

You cannot be too careful where explosives are involved.

Where no provision under this Act is applicable, the case shall be decided in accordance with the customary practices.

In a/the situation, position, case, etc. in which.

waar

at what place; to what place; from what place

哪裡 /哪里

if the place is unknown or is an answer of a question

From Middle English wher, from Old English hwǣr (“where”, literally “at what place”), from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (interrogative pronoun).


where

And flight and die is death destroying death; Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/
Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.

Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

Where Susy has trouble coloring inside the lines, Johnny has already mastered shading.

While on the contrary; although; whereas.

I read where they caught the guy.

siinä missä

while on the contrary, although, whereas


where

Where did you come from?

Where are you at? (informal)

Where are you off to?

Where you off to? (informal, 'be' verb omitted)

Do you know where you came from?


where

A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.

Finding the nymph a sleepe in secret wheare

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 19:

don't get your honey where you make your money

don't get your meat where you get your bread

fools rush in where angels fear to tread

let the door hit you where the good Lord split you

where there's no sense there's no feeling

where you stand depends on where you sit

you don't get your nookie where you get your cookies

Hawaiian Creole: wea