somewhere — English Dictionary

Adverb

1. In an uncertain or unspecified location.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   I must have left my glasses somewhere.

   I've hidden candy somewhere in this room.

2. To an uncertain or unspecified location.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   He plans to go somewhere warm for his vacation.

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

3. At some unspecified point.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   I don't remember the exact number, but it was somewhere between 200 and 300.

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   When a train has to ascend the incline, it first runs down, engine first, from the station about 60 or 70 yards. Then comes behind it the aforesaid truck, or one similar, which, being attached to an endless wire rope, a communication is made by means of the electric telegraph to the engineman at the top of the incline, when the fixed engine begins to work, and the train, partly pulled by the locomotive before, and partly pushed by the truck behind, rapidly ascends, taking somewhere about three minutes to get up.

Noun

1. Unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.

   Examples

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   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.

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

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

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

2. A person with strong cultural or social ties that are exclusive to a specific place.

   Usage

   • Informal
   • Uncommon

   Antonyms

   anywherecosmopolite

Noun

1. an indefinite or unknown location

   Broader terms

   location

   Examples

   they moved to somewhere in Spain

Adverb

1. in or at or to some place

   Synonyms

   someplace

   Examples

   she must be somewhere