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otherwheres

otherwheres is the alternative form of otherwhere.

Meaning of otherwhere

Adverb

otherwhere (not comparable)

  1. (regional) Synonym of somewhere else: elsewhere, in or to some other place.
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    somewhere else

Questions about otherwheres

What is otherwheres the alternative form of?
Otherwheres is the alternative form of otherwhere.

Words near otherwheres in the dictionary

  1. otherwhence
  2. otherwhens
  3. otherwhere
  4. otherwhereas
  5. otherwhereness
  6. otherwheres
  7. otherwhile
  8. otherwhiles
  9. otherwhither
  10. otherwise
  11. otherwise engaged

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