anywherean‧y‧where /ˈeniweə $ -wer/ ●●● S1 W3 (also anyplace American English) adverb 
Sit anywhere you like. You can buy clothes like these anywhere. I don’t want to live in London, but I’d be happy living anywhere else.2used in questions to mean ‘somewhere’: Do you need anywhere to stay for the night? Did you go anywhere exotic on vacation this year? Have you been anywhere else in Spain?3used in negative sentences to mean no place: I can’t find my passport anywhere.4not anywhere near a)not at all near: I wasn’t anywhere near him when he fell. b)not at all: I don’t think these figures are anywhere near accurate.5anywhere between one and ten/anywhere from one to ten etc used to mean any age, number, amount etc between the ones that you say: She could have been anywhere between 45 and 60 years of age. We can accommodate anywhere between 60 and 300 people.6not get anywhere informal to not be successful at all: You won’t get anywhere without qualifications.7not get somebody anywhere informal if something does not get you anywhere, it does not change a situation or help you to achieve something: You can try writing to complain, but I don’t think it will get you anywhere.8not be going anywhere informal to not be achieving success in your life: He’s a nice enough lad, but he’s not going anywhere.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Did you go anywhere exciting on vacation this year?
- Do they need anywhere to stay for the night?
- I'm so happy here. I couldn't possibly imagine living anywhere else.
- I can't find my keys anywhere.
- I don't want that man anywhere near my house.
- Sit anywhere - there are plenty of seats.
- Tropical fruit used to be hard to find, but now you can buy it anywhere.
- You can buy them anywhere, and they're very cheap.
- I know of no primitive people anywhere that either rejects and despises conflict or represents warfare as an absolute evil.
- Nor have I read about it anywhere.
- Sharpe, glad that he was not having to ride anywhere, began tugging at his tight boots.
- She couldn't find Ana anywhere either.
- She never married or went anywhere even on her days off.
- There is no sign of a shop or café open anywhere.
- We were not able to see anywhere evidence of a master mind during the conflict which followed.
Longman Language Activatorin or to any place
also any place American in or to any place: · You can buy them anywhere, and they're very cheap.· We never go any place or do anything interesting.anywhere in: · Is there any place in the neighborhood where I can get a quick lunch?anywhere else: · I'm so happy here. I couldn't possibly imagine living anywhere else.anywhere near: · I don't want that man anywhere near my house.
far away from other places a distant or far-off town or country is a long way from where you are: · Food at the fair comes from such far-off places as Brazil and Lithuania.· How can we send our young men off to distant lands to die in foreign wars?
written a faraway country, especially one that you have been told about or have read about, is very far away, and different from your own country: · Ed told us stories of all the faraway countries he had visited.· Avis always dreamed of an exotic vacation in some faraway place.
remote places are far away from other places or people, and very few people go there: · They moved to a remote farmhouse in North Wales.· The helicopter crashed in a remote desert area.
a long way from other towns, buildings, or people, especially in a quiet place where you are alone: · If you travel to isolated areas, make sure you have a good guide.· The area is extremely isolated because of the hills that surround it.
a secluded place is private and quiet because it is a long way from other people - use this about a place where people can do what they want without being disturbed: · They drove to a secluded spot in the country to have their picnic.· We rented a little cabin on the edge of a secluded lake.
informal in a lonely place a long way from towns or villages, where you do not expect to find any houses: · Amazingly, we found a really nice motel in the middle of nowhere.· We were miles from anywhere and had no idea how to get back.
American informal in a part of the country that is a long way from any town: · I'm not moving to that place - it's out in the boondocks.· Gayle lives out in the boonies - it would take at least an hour to get there.
fairly far away from any town or from where other people live, and a little difficult to find and travel to: · The house is a little out of the way, but you should be able to find it.
also off the beaten path American a place that is off the beaten track or path is a long way from the places where people usually go, which usually makes it more interesting to visit: · The little restaurant was so far off the beaten track that we almost didn't find it.· Greg likes to get off the beaten path and discover places that other tourists don't find.
a long way from where you are now or far away from the nearest town: way out in/past/beyond etc: · I live way out in Laurel Canyon.· We drove way out past Reno to the old Fielding place.
far-flung places are all connected with a particular organization, country etc but they are all very far away from it: · Our job is to organize the company's far-flung offices.· Participants come from nations as far-flung as Iceland and Japan.
not in any place not in any place or to any place: · Where's Nick? I can't find him anywhere.· Yeah, I'll wait. I'm not going anywhere.· a path that seemed to lead nowherenowhere else/not anywhere else (=no other place): · In the Sonoran Desert there are plants that grow nowhere else in the country.nowhere to live/sit/stay: · The hall was already full, and there was nowhere to sit.
American informal nowhere: · She had no place else to live, so I let her stay in my apartment.· I was lonely and broke with no place to go.· We had no place else to rehearse.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY I don’t want to live in London, but I’d be happy living anywhere else. Have you been anywhere else in Spain?COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES They lived in a little cottage miles from anywhere (=a long way from the nearest town). Was there anything in particular that you wanted to talk about?COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
I don’t want to live in London, but I’d be happy living anywhere else. Have you been anywhere else in Spain? They lived in a little cottage miles from anywhere (=a long way from the nearest town).· You must not smoke anywhere in the building.
Was there anything in particular that you wanted to talk about?· Smarter people know that nobody would believe any yarn that came anywhere near the truth.· But for Bellerophon riding pegasus there was no need to come anywhere near the flaming monster.· Nothing living, it seemed, would come anywhere close to this long abandoned dwelling.· And who, today, comes anywhere near filling that role?· You have to be both token woman and superwoman to come anywhere near a shortlist that disenfranchises most of the male population.· An announcement to add two teams by 1998 could come anywhere between the middle of next month and the postseason.· Active cases must be well isolated so that disease free horses can not come anywhere near infected cases.· But it seemed as if Bert's job, possibly conveniently, prevented him from coming anywhere near Four Winds for the time being.
· Nobility could be found anywhere, and Charity allowed herself to feel faintly optimistic about her future as a cocktail waitress.· Everything, it seemed, was not to be found anywhere.· Couldn't find anywhere to get off the road.· The thing that drove him into seclusion was his failure to find anywhere a return of the warmth that flowed from him.· It is very difficult to find anywhere else in the world.· And the result is endlessly fascinating for dippers, with the kind of information included you simply can't find anywhere else.· Is this what Margaret meant by claiming that what can be found anywhere can probably be found every-where?
· They were left with the feeling of not getting anywhere.· I found out I could sit and study something for ever and never get anywhere.· Jefferies noted that REITs currently are getting anywhere from 8. 5 to 11 percent returns on the funds it invests.· In the unchanging landscape we drove but we didn't get anywhere.· It is no use going into a tantrum, Joe, because you are not going to get anywhere..· We're not getting anywhere like this.· If you don't face anything, you don't get anywhere.
· Man Friday For two years I never went anywhere without my gun.· Weapons of all types were everywhere, and no soldier went anywhere without a lethal instrument within close reach.· That makes me feel bad because I don't want to go anywhere else.· None has gone anywhere, though investigators sometimes found merit to the charges.· Or the research could go anywhere and lead to the unexpected!· But no one is going anywhere until the cattle move.· Sunderland were lucky, the ball could have gone anywhere.· C., its members carry beepers and can be ready to go anywhere in the world within hours.
· Their not caring what happens anywhere else in the world.· If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere.· And Bosnias can happen anywhere, at any time.· They could happen anywhere and very well might.· Most of the time you have no idea what's happening anywhere else.
· On Friday night, therefore, Miss Tilley's was the only information which seemed to lead anywhere.· It's not much and it doesn't lead anywhere, so don't get excited.
· Looking back I think she could hardly have lived anywhere more suited to the containment of her difficulty.· Dominic has always said that he could live anywhere, and he has proved this more than once.· Wildlife lost for ever Many rainforest species can not live anywhere else.· She was born here and has never wanted to live anywhere else.· I've never lived anywhere more friendly, homely or relaxing.· If you could live anywhere, where would that be?· I've never lived anywhere else.· But locals say they wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
· The mechanism which Roberts proposes might be expected to work anywhere that spruce is grown.· The Optimistic one is that if decentralization partially works in Phoenix, it can work anywhere.· They wouldn't work anywhere else.· Border Patrol spokeswoman Andrea Privette says the federal agents can work anywhere in public domain.· No known clockmaker, other than self-taught Harrison himself, lived or worked anywhere around north Lincolnshire in the early eighteenth century.· Pampered technical and content staffers may resist working anywhere other than near their favorite coffee shops or blues clubs.· Unfortunately, quasi-socialistic import substitution did not work anywhere it was tried.· The ability to work anywhere means that you work everywhere.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► not be going anywhere► not anywhere near► anywhere between one and ten/anywhere from one to ten etcPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► lead nowhere/not lead anywhere► nowhere near/not anywhere near
1in or to any place: - Ultimately, I decided that this was not getting us anywhere, but I was her last hope.
- We want young people to be aware that this is something that will not get you anywhere.
- I'm trying to set up a meeting, but I don't seem to be getting anywhere.
- A crash diet will leave you hungry, you will binge and you will not get anywhere.
- But the reality is that 99% of artists working in London will not get anywhere near the shortlist.
- Still not getting anywhere in Northern Ireland, but then, who is?
- They were left with the feeling of not getting anywhere.
- We're not getting anywhere like this.
- When you're not getting anywhere with some one, you can choose to switch streams.
- Which makes the documentation all the more poignant when you know the project did not get anywhere.
- 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.
Sit anywhere you like. You can buy clothes like these anywhere. I don’t want to live in London, but I’d be happy living anywhere else.2used in questions to mean ‘somewhere’: Do you need anywhere to stay for the night? Did you go anywhere exotic on vacation this year? Have you been anywhere else in Spain?3used in negative sentences to mean no place: I can’t find my passport anywhere.4not anywhere near a)not at all near: I wasn’t anywhere near him when he fell. b)not at all: I don’t think these figures are anywhere near accurate.5anywhere between one and ten/anywhere from one to ten etc used to mean any age, number, amount etc between the ones that you say: She could have been anywhere between 45 and 60 years of age. We can accommodate anywhere between 60 and 300 people.6not get anywhere informal to not be successful at all: You won’t get anywhere without qualifications.7not get somebody anywhere informal if something does not get you anywhere, it does not change a situation or help you to achieve something: You can try writing to complain, but I don’t think it will get you anywhere.8not be going anywhere informal to not be achieving success in your life: He’s a nice enough lad, but he’s not going anywhere.