elsewhere
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adv
noun
Freq #4612
Meanings
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adv
in or to another place
After meeting us here, they scattered elsewhere.
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adv
Synonym of somewhere else: in, at, or to some other place.
If you won’t serve us, we’ll go elsewhere.
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noun
Synonym of somewhere else: a place other than here.
We are back on the Ligurian coast, from which vertigos push human beings toward all kinds of elsewheres.
Etymology
From Middle English elswher, from Old English elles hwǣr and elles hwerġen (“elsewhere”); corresponding with else + where. Cognate with Old High German alleswār (“elsewhere”), whence Middle High German alleswā, alswā (“elsewhere”).
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Synonyms
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adv
· synonym of somewhere else:...
somewhere else
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noun
· synonym of somewhere else:...
somewhere else