where'er

American  

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

conjunction

Literary.

1. contraction of wherever.

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where'er British  

/ wɛərˈɛə /

adverb

1. a poetic contraction of wherever

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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.

From The Guardian

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

From Literature

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!”

From New York Times

Such people, Ben Jonson wrote in 1600, “where’er they sit concealed, let them know, the author defies them and their writing-tables.”

From New York Times

Where’er she passes, thousands bend, And thousands, where she moves, attend; Her ways observant eyes confess, Her steps pursuing praises bless; While to the elevated maid Oblations, as to HEAV’N, are paid.

From Project Gutenberg