[Old English hwǣr, hwār(a); related to Old Frisian hwēr, Old Saxon, Old High German hwār, Old Norse, Gothic hvar] Usage: It was formerly considered incorrect to use where as a substitute for in which after a noun which did not refer to a place or position, but this use has...
Where did you get such a notion? conjunction in or at what place, part, point, etc.: Find where he is. Find where the trouble is. in or at the place, part, point, etc., in or at which: The book is where you left it.
Where did Jack Kerouac write On the Road? Where does Margaret Atwood live? Where was Enid Blyton born? Where did Roald Dahl work? What stories are in Neil Gaiman's ''Norse Mythology''? Where did Frank McCourt live in Limerick? Where did James Welch live?
Where does Grendel live in Beowulf? Where did Beowulf fight Grendel? Where does Grendel's mother live in Beowulf? Where does the story of Beowulf take place? Where was Beowulf written? Where was Beowulf when Grendel burst into the hall? Where is the Beowulf poet's homeland? Where is ...
in the know, privy to information. [before 900; Middle English knowen, knawen, Old English gecnāwan; c. Old High German -cnāhan, Old Norse knā to know how, be able to; akin to Latin(g)nōscere, Greek gignṓskein. See gnostic, can1] know′a•ble, adj. know′er, n....
perhaps americans more so, are familiar with the popular tune in many a store, "here comes santa claus, right down santa claus lane…" santa visits children all over the world on christmas eve, and more recently, has also added some chinese children to his list. but where did he come ...
Where did the littletarantabite you? Under the hem of my skirt.] Which naturally makes one think of the great hunter Orion: Orion–Hesiod says that he was the son of Euryale, the daughter of Minos, and of Poseidon, and that there was given him as a gift the power of walking upon th...
The character did not turn into an all-out villain untilHellraiser 3: Hell on Earth. He’s more neutral in the first two movies of the franchise. Pinhead was a charming WWI captain named Eliot Spencer in his former life. However, the horrors of war caused him to have a mental breakdown...
popularized until the 18th century with Christian Wolff’sPsychologia Empirica. Even then, English-speaking scholars still tended to use 'mentalphilosophy' to describe the study and understanding of the mind, and not until the mid-19th century did the Anglicized 'psychology' begin ...
Old English: gēatas [ˈjæɑtɑs]; Old Norse: gautar [ˈɡɑu̯tɑr]; Swedish: götar [ˈjø̌ːtar]), sometimes called Goths, were alarge North Germanic tribewho inhabited Götaland ("land of the Geats") in modern southern Sweden from antiquity until the late Middl...