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somewhere

adv
/ˈsʌm.wɛɹ/US/ˈsʌm.wɛː/UK/ˈsʌm.hweːɹ/

Etymology

From some + where.

  1. derived from *kʷ-✻
  2. inherited from *hwar✻
  3. inherited from *hwār✻
  4. inherited from hwǣr — “where”
  5. inherited from wher
  6. compounded as somewhere — “some + where”

Definitions

  1. In an uncertain or unspecified location.

    • I must have left my glasses somewhere.
    • I've hidden candy somewhere in this room.

  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?

  3. At some unspecified point.

    • I don't remember the exact number, but it was somewhere between 200 and 300.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

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

      • 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.

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

The neighborhood

Derived

it's five o'clock somewhere, somewhere along the line, somewhere else, somewhereness, somewhere over the rainbow

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for somewhere. 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