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We found 27 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word whereas: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "whereas" is defined. General (24 matching dictionaries) whereas: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] whereas: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] whereas: Vocabulary.com [home, info] whereas: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] whereas: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] Whereas, whereas: Wordnik [home, info] whereas: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] Whereas: Wiktionary [home, info] whereas: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info] whereas: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] whereas: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] whereas: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] whereas: Dictionary.com [home, info] whereas: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info] whereas: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] Whereas: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] whereas: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] whereas: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] whereas: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info] whereas: Free Dictionary [home, info] whereas: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] whereas: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info] Business (3 matching dictionaries) Whereas: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info] WHEREAS: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info] Whereas: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (whereas) (adv.) At which place; where. (conj.) Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow. (conj.) When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that; although; -- implying opposition to something that precedes; or implying recognition of facts, sometimes followed by a different statement, and sometimes by inferences or something consequent. (This definition is from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary and may be outdated.)