Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb At, in, or to a place not specified or known.
- adverb To a place or state of further development or progress.
- adverb Approximately; roughly.
- noun An unknown or unspecified place.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In some place unknown or not specified; in one place or another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb
In anuncertain orunspecified location . - adverb
To an uncertain or unspecified location.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in or at or to some place
- noun an indefinite or unknown location
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Examples
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But somewhere was Venice, _somewhere_ his nest -- with Pepita and the fledglings.
Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon Lucy M. Blanchard
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Tavel figures the album cost the label somewhere around $4 million.
News 2012
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Tavel figures the album cost the label somewhere around $4 million.
News 2012
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Tavel figures the album cost the label somewhere around $4 million.
News 2012
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It's also quite possibly the single best book of the year with my name somewhere on the front cover.
David Wild: Give Thanks, Then Give Presents: My Holiday Gift Guide to You David Wild 2011
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It's also quite possibly the single best book of the year with my name somewhere on the front cover.
David Wild: Give Thanks, Then Give Presents: My Holiday Gift Guide to You David Wild 2011
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It's also quite possibly the single best book of the year with my name somewhere on the front cover.
David Wild: Give Thanks, Then Give Presents: My Holiday Gift Guide to You David Wild 2011
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Barb has never met anyone named Daphne, but she knows she's heard the name somewhere before.
White Bread Jessica Anya Blau 2011
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It's also quite possibly the single best book of the year with my name somewhere on the front cover.
David Wild: Give Thanks, Then Give Presents: My Holiday Gift Guide to You David Wild 2011
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It's also quite possibly the single best book of the year with my name somewhere on the front cover.
David Wild: Give Thanks, Then Give Presents: My Holiday Gift Guide to You David Wild 2011
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