Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In some other place; elsewhere.

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

  • adverb In or to some other place, or places; elsewhere.

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

  • adverb Appalachian In or to some other place, or places; elsewhere.

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Examples

  • Parliament of England where she may please within that realm, though her lieges would be somewhat startled if it were called otherwhere than in London.

    North America 1862

  • Parliament of England where she may please within that realm, though her lieges would be somewhat startled if it were called otherwhere than in London.

    North America — Volume 1 Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Eckard has a talent for rendering an "otherwhere" feeling that's almost equal to Ursula K. LeGuin, Jack Dann, or Gene Wolfe.

    Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 2 Issue 2 (ANSI Edition) 1994

  • His construction of the fantasy otherwhere has the energy of total conviction.

    March Books 18) A Different Kingdom, by Paul Kearney nwhyte 2010

  • As her voice, in the song, made soft vibrations in his ears, it seemed to him that she grew dim and vague before him, and that somehow, under the soft searching prod of her song, he was otherwhere.

    CHAPTER XXII 2010

  • I do not know, save that, without whisper of man's voice or printed word, without prompting from otherwhere, this thought has arisen from within me, from the deeps of me that are as deep as the sea.

    THE WATER BABY 2010

  • So much was he otherwhere that he did the surprising thing.

    CHAPTER XXII 2010

  • I do not know, save that, without whisper of man's voice or printed word, without prompting from otherwhere, this thought has arisen from within me, from the deeps of me that are as deep as the sea.

    The Water Baby 2010

  • It's excellent and gives you that feeling of being otherwhere while you are reading it, not quite still in your own reality anymore, if you know what I'm getting at.

    Fic Rec amberfocus 2008

  • Of course, in the US (or otherwhere) I would hardly have come upon so utilitarian a conclusion, and I would have probably nursed it back to health, or more likely, driven it to the local SPCA.

    Archive 2007-11-01 jen 2007

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