Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Not anywhere.
- adv. To no place or result: protested the ruling but got nowhere.
- n. A remote or unknown place: a cabin in the middle of nowhere.
- n. A state of nonexistence: an idea that came out of nowhere.
- idiom. miles from nowhere In a very remote place.
- idiom. nowhere near Not nearly: has nowhere near enough money to buy a house.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not in any situation or state; in no place; not anywhere; by extension, at no time.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Not anywhere; not in any place or state.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an insignificant place
- adv. not anywhere; in or at or to no place
Etymologies
- no + where (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They call it "ember attack", but the term nowhere near describes the terrifying reality.”
“May 19th, 2008 3: 42 pm ET caption: "I ain't goin 'nowhere' til I get my money back!”
“So the article and the DPD page both refer to a large number of these open plots, but nowhere is there a map of them.”
“That all has to do with the Patriot Act. Yet, this county clerk in the middle of nowhere is able to thumb her nose at U.S. and South Dakota law and get away with it.”
“-- Fight for Internet Openness and Affordability Like We Mean It - Public policy often seems arcane to people's real-life struggles and nowhere is that more true than in the world of telecommunications policy.”
The Huffington Post: Tracy Rosenberg: Broadband for the People: From the Net to the Roots
“What has impressed as much as anything, apart from the speed of the rise from nowhere, is how at ease he has seemed at every one of the levels he so rapidly rose through.”
The Guardian: Dan Cole the tighthead Tiger who is too good to ditch
“A bridge to nowhere is a bad bridge, and they're all over the place.”
“As policymakers prepare to shift to a post-election mindset, nowhere is there a better opportunity to drive down costs, create jobs and ensure the well being of millions of Americans.”
The Huffington Post: Kenneth Thorpe: Cutting Home-Based Care Defies Fiscal and Political Logic
“I have not yet been in the Antarctic, but whatever climate obtains there will not deter me from drawing the conclusion that nowhere is there a climate to compare with that of this region.”
“I searched the NYT lists and she was nowhere to be found, I searched the Barnes and Noble lists, again nowhere to be found.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nowhere’.
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multiple meaning words
These words seem very familiar but are awfully-versatile and oftentimes serve senses exceptionally beyond people's presumptions ...
sense, serve, please, say, profile, draw, weather, bear, project, ship, profiler, tune and 140 more...
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FUN - Beatles song titles
Typical words from Beatles song titles. Can you recreate the titles?
(Grammatical words have been omitted)polythene, Sun King, rhythm and blues, taxman, tripper, monkey business, mailman, matchbox, rock and roll, ooh, blue jay, reprise and 388 more...
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
about, above, across, after, afterwards, again, against, all, almost, alone, along, already and 291 more...
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Big Tent
Universal quantifiers, totalizing pronouns and superlatives will save us ALL (and NONE)!
everyone, nobody, all, every, none, everybody, never, always, no one, nothing, nowhere, everywhere and 16 more...
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Here and Now
Words related to the mental state of "being in the present in the moment".
improvisation, nolens volens, extempore, autoschediastic, in medias res, willy-nilly, egersis, immanence, nunc pro tunc, spontaneity, observant, concentration and 55 more...
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It's All Just Words.
quixotic, penisaurus rex, plibt, pot, polaroid, gemütlichkeit, hey! pooper scoop..., nowhere, anywhere, somewhere, elsewhere, wherever and 80 more...
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ROT13 Pairs
Nabbed from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT-13#Letter_games_and_net_culture: words that become other existing words (or failing that, acronyms) when a Caesar shift of 13 places is applied to them.
aha, nun, ant, nag, balk, onyx, bar, one, barf, ones, be, or and 64 more...
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hard to sense
somewhat, somewhere, elsewhere, whereby, likewise, spite, ever, along, otherwise, whatever, whichever, hitherto and 116 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Place Names Of Distinction
These are all names of real places. The focus is on towns, mountains, rivers etc. but I will consider streets. Streets are even wackier so if there's enough good'uns ... yep, another list :-)
malino, yoshkar-ola, cae onan, krakatoa, gulfoss, perusia, camooweal, manangatang, utopia, bastardo, condom, zumstein and 324 more...
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painterly's list
apt descriptions for paintings made or paintings to come
residuum, deciduous, grime, bedlam, grey, coagulate, placeless, absence, silt, symbiosis, syncronicity, simulacra and 19 more...
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OM3 Lesson 21
boutique, vest, purple, style, burgundy, olive, olive green, cotton, fabric, although, pure, smooth and 16 more...
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The Gloaming
dragging, burnt, desert, wind, skywalk, doorway, bundle, beard, tired, bittersweet, flux, party and 55 more...
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Baying Wherewords
Where words go to die.
wherewithal, whereupon, somewhere, whereword, everywhere, nowhere, elsewhere, wheretofore, wherever, anywhere, whereabouts, whereas and 1 more...
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travel
for writing travelogues
traverse, delve, explore, discover, serene, bliss, heaven, haven, hotspot, nestled, secluded, transcend and 67 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for nowhere.
oroboros See abjurer for an interesting fact. Jul 27, 2008
bilby Former name of a marsh by the river Bure in Norfolk, England. Dec 31, 2007
oroboros Be NowHere. Always. Jun 3, 2007