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/ˌɛlsˈʍɛə/
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/ˌɛlsˈwɛə/
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/ˈɛlsˌʍɛɹ/
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/ˈɛlsˌwɛɹ/
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[ˈɛls(h)weːɹ]
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[ˌɛlsˈ(h)weːɹ]
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ˌɛlsˈʍɛːə
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ˈɛlsˌʍɛːɹ
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- US
Adverb
Synonym of somewhere else: in, at, or to some other place.
Usage- not-comparable
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If you won’t serve us, we’ll go elsewhere.
These particular trees are not to be found elsewhere.
More examples (3)
Oh, had we some bright little isle of our own, / In a blue summer ocean far off and alone; / [...] / Where simply to feel that we breathe, that we live, / Is worth the best joys that life elsewhere can give.
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
Many monuments sold in the US are crafted from granite produced in China, India and elsewhere overseas, while a lot of stone-working equipment comes from Europe.
Noun
Synonym of somewhere else: a place other than here.
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We are back on the Ligurian coast, from which vertigos push human beings toward all kinds of elsewheres.
Adverb
in or to another place
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he went elsewhere
look elsewhere for the answer