elsewhere

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  1. adverb In or to a different or another place: has property at the shore and elsewhere.

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  • Many of its resident nobility and gentry have considerable properties elsewhere, as for instance the Dukes of Buccleuch and Grafton, and Lords Spencer, Fitzwilliam, Winchelsea; and you will see that the resources of the county are really in that sense larger than they appear. —  The Life of John Clare
  • The virtual woman was the most exciting, mysterious and passionate woman I had ever known in reality or elsewhere -- and there had been a bundle, let me tell you. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 03 - March 1995
  • Smears of blood on the metal suggested the assault had probably taken place elsewhere, then the body was thrown in the back and driven here. —  Kahawa
  • The Inquisition, of dread name elsewhere, in the Philippines affected only Europeans, had before it two English-speaking persons, an Irish doctor and a county merchant accused of being Freemasons. —  Lineage, Life and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot
  • In 1834 a British visitor noted the growing craze for such knives—Rezin always said that others designed and made this new variety—and commented that they “got their name of Bowie knives from a conspicuous person of this fiery climate.”69 The next year they were being made in Boston and Cincinnati and elsewhere, and by 1841 James Black claimed to have made them in Arkansas. —  Three Roads to Alamo
 

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  1. from Middle English elleshwer, elleshwar, from Anglo-Saxon elles hwǣr, elles hwār: elles, else; hwǣr, indefinite, where.
 

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