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someplace

adv
/ˈsʌmˌpleɪs/

Etymology

From some + place.

  1. derived from *pleth₂-✻ — “to spread”
  2. derived from πλατεῖα
  3. derived from platēa — “plaza, wide street”
  4. derived from place — “place, an open space”
  5. inherited from plæċe — “place, an open space, street”
  6. inherited from place
  7. compounded as someplace — “some + place”

Definitions

  1. Somewhere.

    • We can't find the damned thing, but it must be someplace.

  2. An unspecified location.

    • And there is a reason for going to Israel: to find a someplace.
    • Thus, "placing readers at the forefront of utopian studies will [...] help us to understand more fully and accurately what the noplaces of Utopia have done, do, and will do to the someplaces of our world" (Roemer 154).
    • To get here you drive through the series of pocketed communities that fray the outskirts of these usual someplaces, someplaces that are like industrial cities that were once more industrious cities.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for someplace. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA