somewheresome‧where /ˈsʌmweə $ -wer/ ●●● S1 W2 adverb 
My wallet must be around here somewhere.somewhere to do something There must be somewhere to eat cheaply in this town.somewhere safe/different etc Is there somewhere safe where I can leave my bike? Go and play somewhere else (=in a different place) – I’m trying to work. We could meet for dinner at Giorgio’s or somewhere (=or a similar place).2somewhere around/between etc a little more or a little less than a particular number or amount, especially a large one SYN approximately: We have somewhere in the region of 500 firefighters in this area.3be getting somewhere to be making progress: At last I feel we’re getting somewhere.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- From somewhere along the corridor there came the sound of laughter.
- I know I saw it somewhere, but I can't remember exactly where.
- I know their house is somewhere near here.
- She lives somewhere near Manchester.
- She needs to find somewhere to live before starting her new job.
- Cars went past in a hurry to somewhere.
- He supposed it was somewhere under the rug, perhaps held on to by old Josh as some sort of comforter.
- He survived and is now believed to be hiding somewhere in the United States under federal protection.
- It's been in the mud somewhere.
- So I cast around for somewhere else and we found this, in a very poor state of repair.
- The concept of walking around looking somewhere between medium-rare and well-done is relatively recent.
- The pathfinder, hidden in the tree line somewhere, told us everybody was loaded and to take off to the left.
- Weaving through the hills was the Owens River aqueduct, and somewhere along its course were the Alabama Gates.
Longman Language Activatorapproximately a large number or amount
· The business is worth something in the region of $25m.· The universe is estimated to be somewhere in the region of eleven billion years old.· A typical price would be somewhere in the region of £2,500 per person.
spoken · Smith is already something like $10,000 in debt.· In the USA something like 4000 such accidents occur each year.
: an estimated 3000 people/one million pounds/90% of profits etc approximately that number or amount - use this when you have no exact or detailed figures on which to calculate the exact number: · The event was seen on television by an estimated 250 million people worldwide.· An estimated 10% of new mothers suffer from severe depression.· By the end of the month an estimated 1000 people had been killed and 42,000 left homeless.
: some 100 people/50 years/2000 establishments etc approximately that number or amount - use this especially when you think it is impressive or surprising: · Among the 11 factory sites across Europe, some 2,600 jobs are to be eliminated this year.· He lectured at the Institut Pasteur for some 50 years.
: 5000 people/20%/9 days etc or more use this when the total may be a lot more, and you want to emphasize that this is a large number or amount: · How can you be tired? You slept for ten hours or more last night.· There were a thousand or more fans at the airport to welcome the band.
a place for someone to live the houses, flats etc within a particular area that are available for or are provided for people to live in: · Most of the housing in the area is sub-standard and nothing is being done to improve it.· The council is making a great effort to provide cheap housing and more public facilities.
formal a place where people can live or stay, including houses, flats, hotels etc: · The holiday costs about £400 for a week's accommodation and flights.student/rented/holiday etc accommodation: · I've been looking in the newspapers for student accommodation but it's all so expensive.
a house, flat etc for people to live in - used especially in advertisements or to talk about large numbers of homes: · They want to build forty luxury homes on a disused railway site.· Between 1945 and 1970 the government built 110,000 new homes for low-paid workers.
a place where you can live - use this especially when this is difficult to get: · I'll stay at my grandmother's at first, until I find somewhere to live.· Students looking for somewhere to live can go the university accommodation service.
informal a place to live - use this especially when you are comparing this with the possibility of not having anywhere to live at all: · It doesn't matter what kind of place it is, at least you'll have a roof over your head.· It's hard to be cheerful when you haven't even got a roof over your head.
also housing estate British an area where houses have all been built together in a planned way: · Jane has her own house on a neat housing estate in the south-east.council estate (=an estate built by the local government, especially to be rented): · They live in a block of flats on a bleak council estate.
American informal a group of houses or apartments usually built with government money for poor people to rent: · Under this proposal, Federal money will no longer go to public housing projects but will go instead directly to the people.· Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project· She says she wants something better for her kids than what she had in the projects.
a group of new buildings that have all been planned and built together on the same piece of land: · New developments are springing up all around the town.
in or to a place, when you do not know which place · She lives somewhere near Manchester.· I know I saw it somewhere, but I can't remember exactly where.· From somewhere along the corridor there came the sound of laughter.somewhere to live/sleep/sit etc · She needs to find somewhere to live before starting her new job.
American informal somewhere: · I want to go someplace warm on vacation.· She lives someplace up near Portland, and I haven't seen her for years.someplace to live/eat/sleep etc: · A lot of people who use the guide are looking for someplace to eat.
to be near the place where you are or where something you are talking about is - use this when you do not know exactly where someone or something is: · Is Bob around?· It's got to be around here somewhere.· There are some good restaurants around there.
in another place, not here also someplace else American in or to another place: · Go and play somewhere else, I'm trying to work.· When the landfill is full, the city will have to find someplace else to dump the garbage.· If labor is cheaper somewhere else, that's where companies will go to build new factories.
in or to another place or other places: · He'll work as a freelance consultant, unless he finds a better job elsewhere.· Make your home difficult to get into, and burglars will go elsewhere.· In North America and Europe, cats are companions for many people. Elsewhere, they are not regarded as pets.elsewhere in: · Elsewhere in the region, conditions are significantly better.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Is there somewhere safe where I can leave my bike? Go and play somewhere else (=in a different place) – I’m trying to work. We could meet for dinner at Giorgio’s or somewhere (=or a similar place). We have somewhere in the region of 500 firefighters in this area.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The list is somewhere around. We’re still looking for somewhere to live. I’m sure they live somewhere near here. They just stood there laughing. We stood watching the rain fall.
Is there somewhere safe where I can leave my bike? Go and play somewhere else (=in a different place) – I’m trying to work. We could meet for dinner at Giorgio’s or somewhere (=or a similar place). We have somewhere in the region of 500 firefighters in this area.· We decided to spend the afternoon in town.
The list is somewhere around.· I usually go to work by bike.
(=used to say what place is on the other side of a door)· This door leads into the garden.
· The only light came from the fire.
We’re still looking for somewhere to live. (=stays in a place)· A thick mist lay on the hills.
literary (=stays there for a long time)· The moon hung over the quiet sea.
I’m sure they live somewhere near here. (=sleep somewhere)· We spent two nights at the Grand Hotel.
· More than 7.6m rail passengers travelled on the Eurostar rail service last year.
· There are many paths leading to the top of the mountain.
· Three pictures hung on the wall over his bed.
· The queue stretched the full length of the building.
formal (=it starts there)· The River Euphrates rises in Turkey and flows through Syria.
· We turned into the road leading to the village.
· A scar ran from the corner of his eye to under his jawbone.
(=appears on something)· The footsteps came closer, and a shadow fell across the table.
(also a smell emanates from somewhere formal)· A delicious smell of baking came from the kitchen.· He was getting complaints about the smell emanating from his shop.
(=moves there through the air)· The smells wafting up the stairs from the kitchen were making her feel hungry.
(=moves there)· Just feet from me, a green snake slithered silently across the path.
· The sounds seemed to be coming from the study below.
· This species is found only in the Southern Hemisphere.
(=used about animals)· Many rainforest species cannot live anywhere else.
(=used about plants)· The species grows wild in Europe.
· There's a spider climbing up your leg.
· A huge spider just crawled under that chair.
(=runs quickly)· The spider was scuttling towards the door.
They just stood there laughing. We stood watching the rain fall.· His statue now stands in the courtyard.
(=a lot comes in)· Mabel pulled back the curtains, and sunlight streamed in.
(=a little comes in)· The canopy of leaves allows some sunlight to filter through.
· My hand was shaking and sweat was pouring off my forehead.
(=flows slowly)· I could feel the sweat trickling down my back.
· The Greenwich Foot Tunnel leads under the River Thames.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Negociants Here's somewhere different to eat.· Steve Reid and I had a couple of free days and were eager to climb somewhere different.
· I have told you, Rain, I was trying to put her somewhere safe and secret for her own safety.· Sometimes, it's simply a question of somewhere safe to go after school while parents are working.· He's returning to somewhere safe when he does that, she thought.· She's got that way of... putting part of herself somewhere safe.· Already he will have been smuggled out of Dublin, to somewhere safe, somewhere beyond us.
VERB· Water fell somewhere, echoing, and the swimming light rippled, reflecting it.· The resulting book falls somewhere between the teen diary / confessional genre and the academic feminist treatise.· Temperature requirements are not too critical either, so long as they fall somewhere in the range of 20-28°C.· Your tone generally falls somewhere in this range: Pompous: Overly formal, often contains passivity and jargon.· By dimensions and purpose, the 1997 Ford Expedition falls somewhere between affordable housing and the next Trailways bus to Yuma.· As one who loves the theatre and reviews on a regular basis, I fall somewhere between auntie and Agate.· Other beans and grains fall somewhere in between.
· She would have to walk back in the afternoon sunshine, or find somewhere to rest.· Whatever factors are suggested as to why people have bigger or smaller families, counterexamples can be found somewhere in the world.· Some time that morning they would have to find somewhere to stay, but at the moment it seemed irrelevant.· She wanted to go back, or to find somewhere that was cool and full of shade.· They found somewhere to sit and watch what was going on, and stayed there.· Because of Jo's curfew their first priority at every party was to find somewhere quiet and get the screwing accomplished in comfort.· Instinct told her to find somewhere to lie up, so she turned unsteadily into the shelter of the trees.· At the time I had to find somewhere quickly and Edouard agreed to it.
· After four awful years, I finally felt I was getting somewhere.· He could therefore be patient, for he was getting somewhere when he did not seem to be moving forward.· That's because I needed to get somewhere.· I just have to get somewhere soon to sleep.· But he must be got somewhere.· I think he thought he was going to get somewhere with Ralph.· I want to get somewhere, I don't want to be a crook or thief all my life.· The Second Son shouted to him to pray instead of cursing and we might get somewhere.
· Yet the regulators have given it a dispensation: the rubbish has to go somewhere.· If you saw the line of tracers from the side, then they were going somewhere else.· Even the tide goes somewhere in the end.· Sometimes it can be a weekly ritual of going somewhere together.· If you are going somewhere then you have to know where you are going in order to point in the right direction.· Information about motion goes somewhere else.· Lisbon was a city in transit - everyone was waiting to go somewhere else.· By dispensing with the inconvenience of actually having to go somewhere to vote, they induce more voters to participate in elections.
· The truth probably lies somewhere between the two.· The truth, of course, lies somewhere in between.· For example, hope lies somewhere between blind trust and suspicion, but so does its opposite, despair.· Of course, the truth lies somewhere in between.· The truth, however, is likely to lie somewhere in between.· The truth, as might be guessed, probably lies somewhere in between.· The answer lies somewhere between these two extremes.
· It is much more difficult to get at property profits than at share profits - everyone has to live somewhere.· He lives somewhere out on the track, Mac.· She had often threatened to take her money and go and live somewhere else.· It was vital to me that I know women somewhere lived differently, freely.· And if you don't like it, you can live somewhere else.· He wanted to live somewhere, period.· Typically they are husbands or wives walking out to live somewhere else, or teenagers leaving home.· People normally commute for one of two reasons: to live somewhere beautiful, or work somewhere glamorous.
· He had read somewhere that Sotheby's was in Bond Street, although he couldn't remember having ever seen it.· I had read somewhere that all the greatest discoveries had been made in the blink of an eye.· I read somewhere that bank capital ratios should be raised.· I read somewhere that Charlton chased him round the goal for this, is that true??· I read somewhere that, in dreams, we all have the experience of being psychotic or demented or delusional.· I read somewhere that Harry Enfield doesn't believe that actors are brave.· He remembered having read somewhere that the eyes were the one feature of the face that never changed.
· You have to start somewhere - but where?· But you have to start somewhere, and, as far as the 49ers were concerned, this was progress.· It is easy to forget that it had to start somewhere.· That his life on earth had stopped and then started somewhere else-here, now.· Everyone has got to start somewhere.· Nevertheless it is necessary to start somewhere and it might be useful to take off from those analyses.· One had to start somewhere and work quickly to meet the growing social need.· But you have to start somewhere.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► find its way somewhere► take somewhere by storm► push/grope/inch etc your way somewhere
1in or to a place, but you do not say or know exactly where: - All the heavy materials came from junk spinning somewhere around in the solar system.
- By dimensions and purpose, the 1997 Ford Expedition falls somewhere between affordable housing and the next Trailways bus to Yuma.
- Possibly somewhere between 1901 and the present, Bobsworth had been caught with his hand in the cash box.
- Problems lie somewhere between puzzles and policy issues.
- The ideal size, in peace, is probably somewhere between 12 and 16.
- The resulting book falls somewhere between the teen diary / confessional genre and the academic feminist treatise.
- There was no definite sound, but he knew that Mabel would be somewhere around.
- Your house current is somewhere around 110 volts, which is enough to fry everything inside your machine.
- Now we're really getting somewhere!
- After four awful years, I finally felt I was getting somewhere.
- At last I felt we were getting somewhere.
- He could therefore be patient, for he was getting somewhere when he did not seem to be moving forward.
- Alternatively dirt and silt could find their way back into the pond.
- As the sulphur finds its way into his lungs, he will become dizzy and nauseated.
- Corporate sponsorship ensures that far more money finds its way into sport than would otherwise be the case.
- I go back, and this time I find my way into nondescript offices below ground where priests are transcribing notes.
- In due course, these accounts found their way into print.
- The ball should have been cleared long before it found its way on to Robert Lee's left boot.
- The company said it would have been impossible to keep the new soybeans from finding their way into human food.
- You must learn to find your way through the menu maze before you can use the program efficiently.
- Whatever factors are suggested as to why people have bigger or smaller families, counterexamples can be found somewhere in the world.
- Annie A very nice symbolic action, but on its own it gets us exactly nowhere.
- Anxiety will get you nowhere, wrote Harsnet.
- Continual moaning and criticism of others gets you nowhere.
- Everyone has got to start somewhere.
- It doesn't get you anywhere.
- Looks like he hated Albert more than anything-but he never would let him get a job anywhere else.
- New York gave you freedom, indulged tastes and vices that could get you hanged somewhere else, but at a price.
- Tell Amy to get the hell out of my house.
- But then I heard some one hollering at me, telling me to get the hell out of there.
- He had already decided to move, he wanted to get the hell out of there.
- I think we should get the hell out of here.
- So I wanted to get the hell out of there.
- The car turning in the road, getting the hell out.
- The men wanted to get the hell out as fast as possible - they were concerned about survival.
- Why on earth didn't I just tell Luke everything and get the hell out?
- You don't wait to pick up personal belongings, you just get the hell out.
- Somewhere along the line, we just stopped talking to each other.
- And somewhere along the line, the street became an idea.
- But somewhere along the line they stopped laughing when they compared their own results with what we were achieving.
- But somewhere along the line, downhill skiing was too much of a chore and an expense.
- Every accident may be regarded as the result of the action of a human being somewhere along the line.
- He and Wharton are related somewhere along the line.
- If he did, the probability is that his genetic inheritance played its part somewhere along the line.
- They accomplished great things in their time, but somewhere along the line they got away from us.
- You missed your forte somewhere along the line, Meg.
- Almost all our citizens are indicted for something or other.
- Calls himself Jack something or other.
- He did it not because he liked people that night but to make a moral point about something or other.
- Iris is off somewhere or other for the next few days.
- It was decided by someone or other that we would stay out at Lima with the grunts.
- Later on, we were on another job, looking after a defence minister from somewhere or other.
- Nineteen fifty something or other convertible.
- Somebody else got a chocolate something or other.
- The cost of the plan would be in the region of $40 to $60 billion.
- An average-sized locust swarm devours in the region of 20,000 tons of vegetation every day.
- As Table 6.1 shows, the national press kept a remarkably steady share, in the region of 16 - 19 percent.
- Costings at November 1991 prices suggest that the scheme will cost in the region of £1.3 million.
- For operations in the region of space from Earth out to the asteroid belt, we need only extract water.
- Something in the region of ninety, or a hundred plus.
- Something in the region of two footballs, apparently.
- The dollar-weighted index is comprised of the stocks of 21 companies with operations in the region of Moline, Illinois.
- The equity in 100, Gurney Road is valued in the region of £50,000.
My wallet must be around here somewhere.somewhere to do something There must be somewhere to eat cheaply in this town.somewhere safe/different etc Is there somewhere safe where I can leave my bike? Go and play somewhere else (=in a different place) – I’m trying to work. We could meet for dinner at Giorgio’s or somewhere (=or a similar place).2somewhere around/between etc a little more or a little less than a particular number or amount, especially a large one SYN approximately: We have somewhere in the region of 500 firefighters in this area.3be getting somewhere to be making progress: At last I feel we’re getting somewhere.