Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈɛlswɪðə/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈɛlswɪðɚ/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Adverb
To some other place; in some other direction.
Usage- Formal
- not-comparable
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; more at somewhere else
More examples (1)
[…] know that ‘impossible,’ where Truth and Mercy and the everlasting Voice of Nature order, has no place in the brave man’s dictionary. That when all men have said “Impossible,” and tumbled noisily elsewhither, and thou alone art left, then first thy time and possibility have come.
With Strickland the sexual appetite took a very small place. It was unimportant. It was irksome. His soul aimed elsewhither.