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someplace

/ˈsʌmˌpleɪs/

someplace adverb: somewhere.

Adverb

someplace (not comparable)

  1. (US, informal) Somewhere.
    • We can't find the damned thing, but it must be someplace.

Noun

someplace (plural someplaces)

  1. An unspecified location.
    • And there is a reason for going to Israel: to find a someplace.1993, Robert Werman, Notes from a Sealed Room: An Israeli View of the Gulf War, →ISBN, page xvii
    • Thus, "placing readers at the forefront of utopian studies will [...] help us to understand more fully and accurately what the noplaces of Utopia have done, do, and will do to the someplaces of our world" (Roemer 154).2007, Tom Moylan, Raffaella Baccolini, Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming, →ISBN, page 322

Examples of someplace in a sentence

  • To get here you drive through the series of pocketed communities that fray the outskirts of these usual someplaces, someplaces that are like industrial cities that were once more industrious cities.2013, Kate Bernheimer, xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, →ISBN:
  • Find a someplace as far away as possible from the flying monster and its helpers.2014, Tom Nigg, The Last of an Extinct Race, →ISBN, page 39:
  • And the someplace else was of little concern to the traveling salesman as well, because for him everywhere was someplace else and this was just another stop between a someplace and an elsewhere.2018, Richard Spuler, Places:

All 15 example sentences with someplace

Forms of someplace

pluralsomeplaces

Origin of someplace

From some + place.

Words formed from someplace

Questions about someplace

What does someplace mean?
Someplace means somewhere.
How do you use someplace in a sentence?
To get here you drive through the series of pocketed communities that fray the outskirts of these usual someplaces, someplaces that are like industrial cities that were once more industrious cities.
What part of speech is someplace?
Someplace can be an adverb or a noun.
How do you pronounce someplace?
Someplace is pronounced /ˈsʌmˌpleɪs/.

Words near someplace in the dictionary

  1. someone's luck is in
  2. someone's number is up
  3. someone's star falls
  4. someones
  5. somepin
  6. someplace
  7. someplace else
  8. someplaces
  9. somepn'
  10. somepody
  11. somepony

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