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SOMEWHERE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An indefinite or unknown location
Example:
they moved to somewhere in Spain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("somewhere" is a kind of...):
location (a point or extent in space)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In or at or to some place
Example:
she must be somewhere
Synonyms:
someplace; somewhere
Classified under:
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Context examples:
Yes; and they have another, who lives somewhere near Cheapside.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He’s bound to go on living, somewhere, somehow.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It suddenly occurred to her: “Who knows? They are perhaps not coming at all, and have turned in somewhere.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The man had rooms somewhere in the town.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was a change in him somewhere, a change so marked that it was the first thing that I noticed, and yet so subtle that I could not put words to it.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Either you come aboard along of us, once the treasure shipped, and then I'll give you my affy-davy, upon my word of honour, to clap you somewhere safe ashore.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The reaction is to an infection somewhere else in your body.
(Infectious Arthritis, NIH)
A metastatic brain tumor starts somewhere else in the body and moves to the brain.
(Brain Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
Endometriosis is when the kind of tissue that normally lines the uterus grows somewhere else.
(Endometriosis, NIH)
There is great fear, great caution, great resolution somewhere.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
