英和和英

語源

where +‎ not; compare whatnot.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈʍɛə(ɹ)nɒt/, /ˈwɛə(ɹ)nɒt/

名詞

wherenot (uncountable)

1. (まれに) Other related places; wherever.
   • 1893, October, Edward Braddon, Thirty Years of Shikar, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 500:

     […] and that now, as then, a morning with the hunt does not always repay the hunting man for getting up in the night and driving in the dark to Dumdum or Cox's Bungalow, or wherenot.

   • 1895, Francis Watt, The Law's Lumber Room, pages 32-33:

     The deed roundly asserted that the island of Antigua (または wherenot) lay in the parish of St Mary, […]

   • 1916, January 1, The Musical Times, page 16:

     We have thus, instead of a monument erected on the hearth of Russian tradition and feeling, numberless single stones, some of which, beautifully carved, — but in crooked lines, — lead us to Bagdad, China, and wherenot.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:wherenot.