somewhere
Syllables: some·where/ˈsʌm.wɛː//ˈsʌm.wɛɹ/
somewhere adverb: in an uncertain or unspecified location.
Adverb
somewhere (not comparable)
- In an uncertain or unspecified location.
- I must have left my glasses somewhere.
- I've hidden candy somewhere in this room.
- To an uncertain or unspecified location.
- He plans to go somewhere warm for his vacation.
- I have to go somewhere at lunch. Can I meet you at 2?
- At some unspecified point.
- I don't remember the exact number, but it was somewhere between 200 and 300.
- When a train has to ascend the incline, it first runs down, engine first, from the station about 60 or 70 yards. Then comes behind it the aforesaid truck, or one similar, which, being attached to an endless wire rope, a communication is made by means of the electric telegraph to the engineman at...1957 September, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 620, from Herapath's Journal
Noun
somewhere (plural somewheres)
- Unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.
- We have come from somewhere and we are going somewhere, but because life is an unending circle, we are again going to come from a somewhere, and we are again going to go to a somewhere, and this will go on, and on, and on.1986, Joel S. Goldsmith, A Parenthesis in Eternity: Living the Mystical Life, page 100
- A courting owl hoots in the somewheres of the night and another answers its call further off.2008, Bill Watkins, The Once and Future Celt, page 283
- A person with strong cultural or social ties that are exclusive to a specific place.
- Antonyms:
- anywhere, cosmopolite
somewhere meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
somewhere in Hindi
- in some place
- कहीं kahī̃
somewhere in Tamil
- எங்கோ, எங்கேயோ
somewhere in Marathi
- to some place
- कुठे तरी kuṭhe tarī
- in some place
- कुठे तरी kuṭhe tarī
somewhere in Urdu
- in some place
- کَہِیں kahī̃
More languagesFewer languages
- somewhere in Bengali
- কোথাও kōthaō
- somewhere in Telugu
- ఎక్కడికో ekkaḍikō, ఎక్కడో ekkaḍō
- somewhere in Malayalam
- എവിടെയോ, എവിടെയെങ്കിലും
- somewhere in Kannada
- ಎಲ್ಲೋ
- somewhere in Punjabi
- ਕਿਤੇ kite
- somewhere in Gujarati
- ક્યાંક kyā̃k, કંઈક kãīk
- somewhere in Odia
- କେଉଁଠି ନା କେଉଁଠି
- somewhere in Sanskrit
- कुत्रापि kutrāpi
- somewhere in Assamese
- ক’ৰবালৈ körbaloi, কেনিবা keniba, কোনোবাফালে künübaphale, ক’ৰবাত körobat
- somewhere in Nepali
- कहीँ, कतै
- somewhere in Pashto
- چېري čeri, چېرته čerta
- somewhere in Arabic
- مَكَان مَا makān mā
- somewhere in Persian
- یه جایی ye-jâyi
- somewhere in Vietnamese
- đâu đó
Examples of somewhere in a sentence
- […] and it transports the person to a somewhere, a somewhere that the music dictates.2012, Thomas M. Kitts, Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty, page 6:
- This is essentialised place: a somewhere that is nowhere and yet everywhere.2015 November 1, Clare Brennan, “The Oresteia review – strong performances at odds with the setting”, in The Observer:
Synonyms of somewhere
Antonyms
Forms of somewhere
| plural | somewheres |
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Origin of somewhere
From some + where.
Words formed from somewhere
Phrases with somewhere
Questions about somewhere
- What does somewhere mean?
- Somewhere means in an uncertain or unspecified location.
- What is somewhere in Hindi?
- Somewhere in Hindi is कहीं (kahī̃). See Somewhere meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use somewhere in a sentence?
- […] and it transports the person to a somewhere, a somewhere that the music dictates.
- What part of speech is somewhere?
- Somewhere can be an adverb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce somewhere?
- Somewhere is pronounced /ˈsʌm.wɛɹ/ (US).
Words near somewhere in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: somewhere (page history and authors); somewhere (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); somewhere (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); somewhere (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ਕਿਤੇ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); કંઈક (Gujarati) (page history and authors); somewhere (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); somewhere (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); چېرته (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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