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单词 someplace
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someplaceadv.n.

Forms: Also some place.
Etymology: < some adj.1 + place n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsomeplace.
dialect and U.S.
A. adv.
Somewhere; (at, in, to, etc.) a particular or unspecified place.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [adverb] > somewhere
somewherec1175
somegate1816
somewheres1859
someplace1880
1880 Notes & Queries 24 Apr. 340/2 ‘No place’ in Devonshire is the usual form of ‘nowhere’, ‘no place else’ and ‘some place else’ being the commonest forms of ‘nowhere else’ and ‘somewhere else’.
1896 Dial. Notes 1 425 Some place, somewhere.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 608 Lodging some place about the pit of the stomach.
1933 Punch 8 Nov. 511/3 Is there no' a nicer toon some place else?
1937 J. Steinbeck Of Mice & Men i. 18 Some place I'd find a cave.
1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 394 The long-awaited grammarian of vulgar American..will have a gaudy time anatomizing such forms as..‘It was some place else’, [etc.].
1959 M. Dolinsky There is no Silence v. 78 She's here some-place.
1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iii. 63 Tony Jaguar decided he could surely unload his harvest of bones on some American someplace... He was right.
1978 Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. e.7/4 I've always been able to get a room someplace, but this year I'm struggling.
B. n.
Somewhere; a particular or unspecified place.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [noun] > somewhere
somewhere1647
someplace1922
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 723 That drunken little barrelly man that bit his tongue off falling down the mens W C drunk in some place or other.
1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet iii. ii. 190 There will be some town, some place close where I can live.
1971 B. Patten Irrelevant Song 37 (title) In someplace further on.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 7 Feb. 15/3 Next the Navy tried Texas, where defense-minded Sen. John Tower said it was a fine idea—for someplace else.
1977 H. Fast Immigrants iii. 165 His father came to America from someplace in Poland in eighteen sixty-nine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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