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otherwhen

otherwhen noun: other time (sometime else).

Noun

otherwhen (plural otherwhens)

  1. (rare) Other time (sometime else).
    • It was the beginning of a trail leading from the here-and-now into the otherwhere, otherwhen which Simak so loved. His otherwhere, otherwhen would never find more poetic expression than in this series about the Websters, unless perhaps in ...1972, Harry Harrison, Brian Wilson Aldiss, The Astounding-analog Reader
    • The ravaging weapons of war had revealed them, had so torn the fabric of the universe that now strange paths to otherwheres and otherwhens lay open to those who were knowledgeable or courageous enough to tread those paths ...1974, Brian Wilson Aldiss, The eighty-minute hour: a space opera

Adverb

otherwhen (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Elsewhen, sometime or somewhen else, another time.
    • In the contrasting phenomenological approach — because elsewhere presences here and otherwhen presences now — elsewhere and otherwhen also are present to one another, each in its own way.2008, Steven M. Rosen, The Self-evolving Cosmos: A Phenomenological Approach to Nature's Unity-in-diversity, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 57

Examples of otherwhen in a sentence

  • Otherwheres and Otherwhens: Excerpts from a Gazetteer of Collective Remembering and Forgetting2000, Allan Pred, Even in Sweden: Racisms, Racialized Spaces, and the Popular Geographical Imagination, Univ of California Press, →ISBN...
  • Two had been found drifting around in space in one of the otherwhens, and once their existence had become known several specimens had been collected, all of the same two individuals of course.2016, Michael Crowe, Tales of the Nephilim, iUniverse, →ISBN:

Forms of otherwhen

pluralotherwhens

Origin of otherwhen

From other + when.

Questions about otherwhen

What does otherwhen mean?
Otherwhen means other time (sometime else).
How do you use otherwhen in a sentence?
Otherwheres and Otherwhens: Excerpts from a Gazetteer of Collective Remembering and Forgetting
What part of speech is otherwhen?
Otherwhen can be a noun or an adverb.
What is the plural of otherwhen?
The plural of otherwhen is otherwhens.

Words near otherwhen in the dictionary

  1. otherward
  2. otherwards
  3. otherways
  4. otherweise
  5. otherwhat
  6. otherwhen
  7. otherwhence
  8. otherwhens
  9. otherwhere
  10. otherwhereas
  11. otherwhereness

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