somewhere

From some +‎ where.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌm.wɛɹ/, /ˈsʌm.ʍɛɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌm.wɛː/, /ˈsʌm.wɛə/, /ˈsʌm.ʍɛə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌm.hweːɹ/

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• Hyphenation: some‧where

somewhere (not comparable)

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.

• someplace (US)
• somewheres

• anywhere
• everywhere
• nowhere
• somebody, someone
• something

somewhere (plural somewheres)

1. Unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.
   • 1986, Joel S. Goldsmith, A Parenthesis in Eternity: Living the Mystical Life, page 100:

     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.

   • 2008, Bill Watkins, The Once and Future Celt, page 283:

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

   • 2012, Thomas M. Kitts, Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty, page 6:

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

   • 2015 November 1, Clare Brennan, “The Oresteia review – strong performances at odds with the setting”, in The Observer‎^[1]:

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

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

   Antonyms: anywhere, cosmopolite