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somewhere, adv. and n.|ˈsʌmhwɛə(r)|
Forms: 3 (Orm.) summhwær, 4 sumwhare, -whore, -wher(e, 6 -whear; 4 sumquar(e, -quer, 5 -qwhare; 4 sum-, somwar; 4 some-, 5 somwhare; 4 sommewhere, 5–7 somwhere, 5– somewhere.
[f. some a.1 + where adv. Down to the end of the 16th c. freq. written as two words.]
A. adv.
1. a. In or at some place unspecified, indeterminate, or unknown.
c1200Ormin 6929 Forr þatt he wass forrdredd tatt teȝȝ Himm sholldenn summwhær hidenn. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 4344 King arþure was þer of ywar, & þoȝte..Wiþ al is poer bi þe wey somwar him kepe. a1310in Wright Spec. Lyric P. xxxix. 110 He hath hewe sum wher a burthen of brere. 1483Cath. Angl. 371/2 Sumqwhare, alicubi. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 106 An holy saynt..serued in many chirches, and some where here in Englande. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 14 Others..wander up and downe to meet somewhere with a refreshing shade. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 256 What malicious Foe..somwhere nigh at hand Watches. 1796F. Burney Camilla IV. 390 A paper in her hand-writing, which she had somewhere lost. 1827Scott Chron. Canongate Introd., As it was suspected that he was lurking somewhere on the property, his family were closely watched. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede xxii, Arthur must be somewhere in the back rooms. 1878G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxvi. 448 There's something wrong somewhere.
b. With correlative somewhere or otherwhere.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. iv. (Bodl. MS.), In coloure..somewhare he [a river] is clere and somewhare he is dymme. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 423 Many places lying waste, somewhere for want of water, somewhere for want of manurance, somewhere for abundance of light sand. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 493 A Regall Commission..beeing some-where obeyed, and other-where suspended.
c. somewhere else, in some other place, elsewhere.
c1500Communycacyon (W. de W.) C ij, Man thou must alwaye suffre payne Here for thy synnes or somwhere elles. 1530Palsgr. 823/1 Some where els, quelque aultre part. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. iv. iii. 40 She is so imploy'd,..with Ioue in heauen, or some where else: So that [etc.]. 1611Cotgr., Ailleurs, elsewhere, somewhere else. 1737Gentl. Mag. VII. 603/2 We must therefore look some where else for the Cause of our present Uneasiness.
d. somewhere or another or other.
1791C. Smith Celestina (ed. 2) I. 129 Here Daniel, prythee take and stow it somewhere or another. 1799E. Du Bois Piece Family Biog. I. 59, ‘I have heard somewhere or another,’ said he, ‘that’ [etc.]. 1852C. W. Hoskyns Talpa i. (1854) 2 Somewhere or other in England there is a flat bleak high-lying district, which [etc.].
e. somewhere in (France, etc.), phr. orig. used during the war of 1914–18 in referring to some locality in the theatre of war without identifying it (because of the restrictions of censorship); hence, in extended use, somewhere unspecified for reasons of security or because one's stay there is temporary.
1915Illustr. London News 20 Feb. 233 (caption) The War Area as seen by the Airman: ‘somewhere in Flanders’ photographed from a reconnoitring Aeroplane. Ibid. 241 For the moment ‘Victoria’ looks like ‘Somewhere in France’. 1915Daily Sketch 17 Aug. 12/1 None of these soldiers a year ago expected to be snapped one day..—somewhere in Egypt. 1918Wireless World VI. 390 A Wireless Section ‘Somewhere in England’. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 21 There was a brannewail that same sabboath night of falling angles somewhere in Erio. 1939War Illustr. 14 Oct. 144 From ‘Somewhere in England’ to ‘Somewhere in France’: 1939 Echoes the Story of 1914. 1943J. B. Priestley Daylight on Saturday viii. 52 If our lads was fightin' like 'ell somewhere in France, why yer'd see them production figures take a high jump. 1943Gramophone Sept. 63/3 From Mr. Tony Puddy, Somewhere-in-England. 1973Jewish Chron. 9 Feb. 15/2 The girls I visited recently on a training course ‘somewhere in Israel’ were not all bunched together in one group. 1977‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy xvii. 400 The Somewhere-in-England sense of makeshift habitation..of every exiled correspondent.
2. To some (unspecified or unknown) place. Usually with the verb go.
c1403Clanvowe Cuckoo & Night. 112 Now, gode Cukkow! go som-where away. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. V, 9 Is it not likely that she wyll send him somwhere out of the realme? 1590Shakes. Com. Err. ii. i. 5 Perhaps..from the Mart he's somewhere gone to dinner. 1592Kyd Sp. Trag. iii. x, To..carry you obscurely some where els. 1720De Foe Capt. Singleton (1906) 37 We were upon a voyage and no voyage, we were bound somewhere and nowhere. 1780Warner in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1844) IV. 359 Charles is gone out of town somewhere to-day.
†3. In some places; here and there. Obs. rare.
1563Nowell in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 20 The coopie..was interlined and sumwhear blotted. 1578Lyte Dodoens v. xxxiii. 593 The Turnep loueth an open place, it is sowen somwhere in vineyardes, as at Huygarden and the Countrie thereaboutes.
4. In some part or passage of a book, etc.; in some work or other.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 74 The Bashaw, in this Itenerary somewhere spoken of. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. ii. §23 A fable, I somewhere met with in the writings of a Swiss philosopher. 1780Mirror No. 102, Lord Chesterfield says somewhere, that, to..act with spirit, is to..act foolishly. 1820Byron Juan iv. cx, As some one somewhere sings about the sky.
5. a. At some time about or in (a certain specified year, date, etc.).
1839Penny Cycl. XIII. 168/1 He is said to have been born somewhere about a.d. 40. 1859Ruskin Two Paths iii. §91 An old English cottage,..perhaps built somewhere in the Charleses' times. 1891C. T. C. James Rom. Rigmarole iv. 32, I woke up out of my nap somewhere about five o'clock.
b. somewhere about, approximately.
1846Ryland in Life & Corr. Foster II. 343 He kept his room somewhere about two months. 1876Tait Rec. Adv. Phys. Sci. vi. 157 The sun's radiation is..somewhere about thirty-fold that of the same area of the furnace of a locomotive.
B. n. Some unspecified or indefinite place.
1647Cowley Mistr. (1669) 22 Then down I laid my Head; and for a while was Dead, And my freed Soul to a strange Somewhere fled. 1718D'Urfey Grecian Heroine v. i, I would fain think now, But that my Spirits, with my Blood, are posting To their new some-where. 1786A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscr. I. 54 It was a somewhere, a home. 1914R. Brooke Let. 7 Mar. in Coll. Poems (1918) p. cxiii, I shall be glad to be back among you all, and tied to somewhere in England. Ibid. Let. Mar. p. cxvii, I want somewhere I needn't always be spick and span in, and somewhere I don't have to pay a vast sum. 1928W. B. Yeats Tower 8 And I myself created Hanrahan And drove him drunk or sober through the dawn From somewhere in the neighbouring cottages. 1930G. B. Shaw Apple Cart ii. 69 All their people came from Scotland or Ireland or Wales or Jerusalem or somewhere. 1942W. Faulkner Go down, Moses 139 A big dog, a hound with a strain of mastiff from somewhere. 1958B. W. Aldiss Non-Stop ii. ii. 79 The ship..has come from somewhere and is going to somewhere. These somewheres are more important than the ship.
So ˈsomewheres adv. (dial. or vulg.)
1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 428 A hundred dollars, or somewheres there along. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. xxviii, I know you've got that ship safe somewheres. |