See whence in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"form": "whence",
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"Preposition"
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"parents": [],
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],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Whence did you come?"
},
{
"text": "It grows naturally in the West Indies, whence the Mr. Miller sent me the seeds."
},
{
"text": "This is the stone whence he pulled the sword."
},
{
"text": "Tell me the town whence they came."
}
],
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"from where"
],
"id": "simple-whence-en-prep-TcqpPBlZ",
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"old, no longer used"
]
}
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"enpr": "hwĕns"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʍɛns/"
},
{
"sampa": "/Wens/"
},
{
"enpr": "wĕns",
"raw_tags": [
"in accents with the wine-whine merger"
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},
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"in accents with the wine-whine merger"
]
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"in accents with the wine-whine merger"
],
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},
{
"audio": "en-us-whence.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
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{
"text": "Whence did you come?"
},
{
"text": "It grows naturally in the West Indies, whence the Mr. Miller sent me the seeds."
},
{
"text": "This is the stone whence he pulled the sword."
},
{
"text": "Tell me the town whence they came."
}
],
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"from where"
],
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},
{
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},
{
"sampa": "/Wens/"
},
{
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"in accents with the wine-whine merger"
]
},
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"in accents with the wine-whine merger"
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"in accents with the wine-whine merger"
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}
],
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}
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