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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

otherwhere en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • /ˈʌðə(ɹ)wɛː(ɹ)/ (UK)

Etymology

From other + where. Compare German anderswo.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, regional) Synonym of somewhere else: elsewhere, in or to some other place.
    • Come, Adrian. I think we should be otherwhere. 1991 September, Stephen Fry, “[Prelude to chapter 1]”, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section, page 4:
    • And fared like a furious wyld Beare, Whoſe whelpes are ſtolne away, ſhe being otherwhere. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 499:

Deriveds

otherwhereness

Synonyms

somewhere else