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where'er

American  
[wair-air, hwair-] / wɛərˈɛər, ʰwɛər- /

conjunction

Literary.
  1. contraction of wherever.


where'er British  
/ 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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Let me go where'er I will I hear a sky-born music still.

From Time Magazine Archive

Let me go where'er I will I hear a sky-born music still.

From Time Magazine Archive

Today's American, let him go where'er he will, hears the sound of music still�hardly celestial, but often sky-born.

From Time Magazine Archive

What are all wars, where'er the marks you trace, But the sad records of our world's disgrace?

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip

May incense waft thy name where'er it goes, The happy gale which bears thee bear the rose!

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

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