Whereas

Adverb

 * 1)  Where (that).
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii:
 * And home she came, whereas her mother blynd / Sate in eternall night [...].

Conjunction

 * 1) In contrast; whilst on the contrary
 * He came first in the race whereas his brother came last.
 * 1) It being the fact that
 * And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in Congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union. (United States Articles of Confederation)
 * 1) Inasmuch as

Noun

 * 1) A clause, as in legal documents, stating whereas.
 * 2) * 1883, The Insurance Law Journal
 * ...the promise is stated after a whereas, though the promise is the very gist of the action, yet, such a count so framed, will be held good on demurrer.
 * 1) * 1908, United States Congress, Hearings beginning March 9, 1908-April 30, 1908
 * It had a page or so of whereases.
 * 1) * 1961, Aluminum Workers' International Union, Biennial Convention
 * I feel it is most unfortunate that some of the preambles, prefaces, whereases or whatever you want to call it, are put before motions or before resolutions...
 * 1) * 1973, Canadian Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Proceedings
 * If it is the desire of any Lodge on the floor that the whereases that were listed in their original Resolution be quoted by the Chairman or by the Secretary...

Thesaurus
albeit, although, as, as far as, as long as, as things go, at which time, because, being as how, boundary condition, catch, cause, clause, condition, considering, donnee, during which time, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, fine print, for, forasmuch as, given, grounds, howbeit, in that, inasmuch as, insofar as, insomuch as, joker, kicker, limiting condition, now, obligation, parameter, parce que, prerequisite, provision, provisions, proviso, requisite, saving clause, seeing, seeing as how, seeing that, since, sine qua non, small print, specification, stipulation, string, terms, the while, ultimatum, when, while, whilst

Conjunction

 * Croatian: dok, za razliku od
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: hvorimod
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, kun sitä vastoin
 * French: ,


 * German:, ,
 * Greek: τουναντίον,,  απεναντίας
 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, в то время как
 * Slovene: medtem ko


 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:, , , , , ,
 * German:


 * Greek: δεδομένου ότι, λαμβανομένου υπόψη ότι
 * Navajo:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Spanish: siendo que, por cuanto, visto que

Noun

 * Portuguese: