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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

"Weep not," said he, "dear parents, of better courage be, I'm safe where'er I travel, so take no thought for me."

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

May God be with you, darling, where’er on earth you roam!

From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Stables, Gordon

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