English

Alternative forms

• sumwhere

Adverb

somewhere ‎(not comparable)

1. In an uncertain or unspecified location.

   I must have left my glasses somewhere.

   I've hidden some candies somewhere.

2. To an uncertain or unspecified location.

   He plans to go somewhere warm for his vacation.

   I have to go somewhere at lunch. Can I meet you at 2?

Synonyms

• someplace (US)

Derived terms

• somewhere over the rainbow

Related terms

• anywhere
• everywhere
• nowhere
• somebody, someone
• something

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Noun

somewhere ‎(plural somewheres)

1. Unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.
   • 1986, Joel S. Goldsmith, A Parenthesis in Eternity: Living the Mystical Life, page 100:

     We have come from somewhere and we are going somewhere, but because life is an unending circle, we are again going to come from a somewhere, and we are again going to go to a somewhere, and this will go on, and on, and on.

   • 2008, Bill Watkins, The Once and Future Celt, page 283:

     A courting owl hoots in the somewheres of the night and another answers its call further off.

   • 2012, Thomas M. Kitts, Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty, page 6:

     […] and it transports the person to a somewhere, a somewhere that the music dictates.

   • 2015 November 1, Clare Brennan, “The Oresteia review – strong performances at odds with the setting”, in The Observer:

     This is essentialised place: a somewhere that is nowhere and yet everywhere.

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