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NOWHERE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An insignificant place
Example:
he came out of nowhere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("nowhere" is a kind of...):
obscurity (an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not anywhere; in or at or to no place
Example:
I am going nowhere
Classified under:
Context examples:
From year’s end to year’s end he takes no other exercise, and is seen nowhere else, except only in the Diogenes Club, which is just opposite his rooms.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It had been no easy matter when he first drifted in mysteriously out of nowhere to their little mountain cottage.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Sometimes, I had proceeded restlessly from place to place, stopping nowhere; sometimes, I had lingered long in one spot.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I'm nowhere beside you, for Belle has heaps of taste, and you're quite French, I assure you.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He sees difficulties nowhere: and his pleasantness and gaiety will be a constant support to you.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
They were in the middle of nowhere and it looked like someone had been in there with a lawn mower, Hull said.
(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)
He was nowhere to be met with; every search for him was equally unsuccessful, in morning lounges or evening assemblies; neither at the Upper nor Lower Rooms, at dressed or undressed balls, was he perceivable; nor among the walkers, the horsemen, or the curricle-drivers of the morning.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Ten minutes would have been all that was necessary, perhaps all that was proper; and I had told my father I should certainly be at home before him—but there was no getting away, no pause; and, to my utter astonishment, I found, when he (finding me nowhere else) joined me there at last, that I had been actually sitting with them very nearly three-quarters of an hour.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Then there followed a great to-do through all our old inn, heavy feet pounding to and fro, furniture thrown over, doors kicked in, until the very rocks re-echoed and the men came out again, one after another, on the road and declared that we were nowhere to be found.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A belated gig was coming at full gallop down the road which led from the south, and a few pedestrians were still trailing up from Crawley, but nowhere was there a sign of the missing man.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
