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where'er

[ wair-air, hwair- ]

conjunction

, Literary.
  1. contraction of wherever.


where'er

/ wɛərˈɛə /

adverb

  1. a poetic contraction of wherever
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Whoe’er has travell’d life’s dull round, Where’er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome – at an inn.

All hail to Alma Mater, We’ll always loyal be, Where’er the future leads, Our thoughts will return to thee.

By opera’s end, these stars will have performed any number of delectable arias, including the exquisite “Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me,” “Where’er you walk,” and the absurd showpiece, “Myself I shall adore.”

By opera’s end, these stars will have performed any number of delectable arias, including the exquisite “Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me,” “Where’er you walk,” and the absurd showpiece, “Myself I shall adore.”

Or as Dorothy Parker put it, “Hunger and War do not mean a thing;/Everything’s rosy where’er we roam;/Hark, how the little birds gaily sing!”

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