elsewhere

English

Etymology

From Middle English elswher, from Old English elles hwǣr and elles hwerġen (“elsewhere”); corresponding with else +‎ where.

Pronunciation

Adverb

elsewhere (not comparable)

  1. In or at some other place or places; away.
    • 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, page 162:
      He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
    These particular trees are not to be found elsewhere.
  2. To some other place.
    If you won’t serve us, we’ll go elsewhere.

Translations

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Noun

elsewhere (plural elsewheres)

  1. A place other than here; somewhere else.
    • 2000, Angela M Jeannet, Under the radiant sun and the crescent moon: Italo Calvino's storytelling
      We are back on the Ligurian coast, from which vertigos push human beings toward all kinds of elsewheres.

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References

  • elsewhere in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • elsewhere in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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