Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb To, in, or at any place.
  • adverb To any extent or degree; at all.
  • adverb Used to indicate limits of variation.
  • noun Any place whatsoever.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In, at, or to any place: as, to be or to go anywhere.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In any place.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In or at any location or an unknown location.
  • adverb To (in the direction of) any location or an unknown location.
  • pronoun Any location or an unknown location.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb at or in or to any place

Etymologies

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any +‎ where

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Examples

  • For some Twitter users Tuesday, anywhere they went on Twitter, they were bounced by the mysterious "@anywhere boosh."

    '@anywhere boosh' infiltrates Twitter Eric Athas 2011

  • Given Twitter's immense power as a distribution channel, we imagine that @anywhere will become a popular additive and that we'll soon start to see Twitter anywhere and everywhere.

    Mashable! Jennifer Van Grove 2010

  • Given Twitter's immense power as a distribution channel, we imagine that @anywhere will become a popular additive and that we'll soon start to see Twitter anywhere and everywhere.

    Mashable! Jennifer Van Grove 2010

  • Given Twitter's immense power as a distribution channel, we imagine that @anywhere will become a popular additive and that we'll soon start to see Twitter anywhere and everywhere.

    Mashable! Jennifer Van Grove 2010

  • Forrester Research analyst Augie Ray thinks @anywhere could let Twitter be "anywhere you are" and thus pull away from competitors that also want to be providers of real-time updates.

    ARN News 2010

  • "My wish is to be anywhere with you, papa; _anywhere_ -- even though you may feel me an incumbrance.

    The Lovels of Arden 1875

  • In displaying the name of a book's co-author, publishers have four choices: don't show the name anywhere in or on the book; show it only on the book's copyright page; show it on the book's cover in such a way that it reads Author with Co-Author; or show it on the book's cover so that it reads Author and Co-Author.

    John Shore: What Francis Chan (And His Ilk) Get So Terribly Wrong About Hell (VIDEO) John Shore 2011

  • In displaying the name of a book's co-author, publishers have four choices: don't show the name anywhere in or on the book; show it only on the book's copyright page; show it on the book's cover in such a way that it reads Author with Co-Author; or show it on the book's cover so that it reads Author and Co-Author.

    John Shore: What Francis Chan (And His Ilk) Get So Terribly Wrong About Hell (VIDEO) John Shore 2011

  • To get parking during the term anywhere near my office, I have to be in the lot by 8am.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007

  • Taking an overnight train anywhere is romantic, right?

    Chodak-Tkent-Nukus-Bukhara-Tkent 2004

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