Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. At, in, or to a place not specified or known: found it somewhere in the woods.
- adv. To a place or state of further development or progress: finally getting somewhere.
- adv. Approximately; roughly: somewhere about halfway through.
- n. An unknown or unspecified place: "A big dog, a hound with a strain of mastiff from somewhere” ( William Faulkner).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In some place or other; in a place or spot not known or not specified: as, he lives somewhere in this neighborhood; the line must be drawn somewhere.
- To some unknown or unspecified place; somewhither.
Wiktionary
- adv. In an uncertain or unspecified location.
- adv. To an uncertain or unspecified location.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In some place unknown or not specified; in one place or another.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in or at or to some place
- n. an indefinite or unknown location
Etymologies
- some + where (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But somewhere was Venice, _somewhere_ his nest -- with Pepita and the fledglings.”
“Tavel figures the album cost the label somewhere around $4 million.”
“It's also quite possibly the single best book of the year with my name somewhere on the front cover.”
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“Barb has never met anyone named Daphne, but she knows she's heard the name somewhere before.”
“She nodded and looked toward the windows, her expression somewhere between relief and grief and hope and tears.”
“Nelson looked at Dale, with an expression somewhere between perplexity and pleading.”
“Grete looked at Isabelle, her expression somewhere between a grimace and a grin.”
“The pilot made an expression somewhere between a grin and a sneer.”
“I wrote my name somewhere in the middle, around number eight, right after Daddy Turtledove.”
“He stared for a time at a picture on the wall opposite him, a large drawing of a female nude in charcoal, gold, and umber, with a troubling disproportion in the figure, and in the face an expression somewhere between ecstasy and terror.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘somewhere’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 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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Words Heard Too Often In Songs
Words overused in modern pop music.
Also see ruzuzu's list: Words that should be heard in songs more often.love, heart, dance, dancefloor, down, take, want, night, fight, baby, like, ooooh and 136 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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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 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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OM3 Lesson 21
boutique, vest, purple, style, burgundy, olive, olive green, cotton, fabric, although, pure, smooth and 16 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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OZities
galindafied, wicked, Tin Man, heart, toto, slippers, ruby, flying monkey, Nikki, munchkin, poppies, emerald city and 25 more...
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Wonderful Wiz That Wuz
wizard, scarecrow, lion, tinman, dorothy, toto, yellow brick road, kansas, rainbow, somewhere, tornado, witch and 12 more...
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TN5 Lesson 58
do the dishes, done, yet, glass, plate, bowl, break, broken, chais, steal, stole, stolen and 11 more...
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I'm scared one day I'll say it, "I do...
heartbeats, tessellate, reinvent, collarbones, entangle, frightened, wrists, furniture, variations, unnoticed, astride, motion and 80 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for somewhere.
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