elsewhere

A2
US /ˈɛlsˌʍɛɹ/ UK /ˌɛlsˈʍɛə/
adv noun Freq #4612

Meanings

  1. 1
    adv

    in or to another place

    After meeting us here, they scattered elsewhere.

  2. 2
    adv

    Synonym of somewhere else: in, at, or to some other place.

    If you won’t serve us, we’ll go elsewhere.

  3. 3
    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
2 adv · synonym of somewhere else:... somewhere else
3 noun · synonym of somewhere else:... somewhere else

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