You use nowhere to emphasize that a place has more of a particular quality than any other places, or that it is the only place where something happens or exists.
[emphasis]
Nowhere is language a more serious issue than in Hawaii.
This kind of forest exists nowhere else in the world.
For many birdwatchers, there is nowhere better than Scotland.
2. adverb [beADVERB, ADVERB after verb, usu ADV to-inf]
You use nowhere when making negative statements to say that a suitable place of the specified kind does not exist.
There was nowhere to hide and nowhere to run.
I have nowhere else to go, nowhere in the world.
He had nowhere to call home.
3. adverb [beADVERB, oft ADV to-inf, ADV adv/prep]
You use nowhere to indicate that something or someone cannot be seen or found.
Michael glanced anxiously down the corridor, but Wilfred was nowhere to be seen.
The escaped prisoner was nowhere in sight.
The gate was locked and the guards were nowhere.
4. adverb [ADVERB after verb]
You can use nowhere to refer in a general way to small, unimportant, or uninteresting places.
...endless paths that led nowhere in particular.
...country roads that go from nowhere to nowhere.
5. adverb
If you say that something or someone appears from nowhere or out of nowhere, you mean that they appear suddenly and unexpectedly.
A car came from nowhere, and I had to jump back into the hedge just in time.
Houses had sprung up out of nowhere on the hills.
6. adverb [ADVERB before verb, beADVERB]
You use nowhere to mean not in any part of a text, speech, or argument.
[emphasis]
He nowhere offers concrete historical background to support his arguments.
Point taken, but nowhere did we suggest that this yacht's features were unique.
The most important issue for most ordinary people was nowhere on the proposed agenda.
7.
See in the middle of nowhere
8.
See be getting nowhere
9.
See nowhere near
nowhere in British English
(ˈnəʊˌwɛə)
adverb
1.
in, at, or to no place; not anywhere
2. get nowhere
3. nowhere near
noun
4.
a nonexistent or insignificant place
5. middle of nowhere
nowhere in American English
(ˈnoʊˌhwɛr; ˈnoʊˌwɛr)
adverb
1.
not in, at, or to any place, not anywhere
: also ; Informal, Dialectal ˈnoˌwheres
noun
2.
a place that is nonexistent, unknown, remote, etc.
3.
a place or state of obscurity
Idioms:
nowhere near
Word origin
ME nowher < OE nahwær
More idioms containing
nowhere
all dressed up with nowhere to go
from nowhere
in the middle of nowhere
Examples of 'nowhere' in a sentence
nowhere
They say they have nowhere to live.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It could happen nowhere else in the world.
The Sun (2016)
We are nowhere near good enough at the moment.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It had just come out of nowhere.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She is backing away and you are getting nowhere.
The Sun (2016)
Inflation will rise, but nowhere near as fast.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
This paramedic appeared out of nowhere, comforted me, examined me.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
We will give him a welcome like nowhere else in the world has done.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
We were nowhere near good enough to win that game.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Nobody is in a rush because the club is going nowhere fast with them in charge.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
These are sounds you heard nowhere else.
The Sun (2013)
This is a company that is going nowhere.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
No more throwing your mobile on the passenger seat because there is nowhere suitable on the dashboard.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Work ideas seem to come out of nowhere but are winners.
The Sun (2016)
There is nowhere quite like it anywhere in the world.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Out of nowhere a figure appears on a motorbike driving hell for leather towards the convoy.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
There is nowhere like it in motor racing.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
If you just roll over you get nowhere.
The Sun (2015)
The minimum wage is nowhere near enough.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He spent the next decade training and treading the boards but getting nowhere fast.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The wind here is like nowhere else.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The poor badgers will then have nowhere to go.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He turned up on my girlfriend's doorstep saying he had nowhere else to go.
The Sun (2016)
I say nowhere is beyond redemption.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
In other languages
nowhere
British English: nowhere /ˈnəʊˌwɛə/ ADVERB
You use nowhere to mean not any place.
This kind of forest exists nowhere else in the world.
American English: nowhere
Arabic: لَيْسَ فِي أَيّ مَكَانٍ
Brazilian Portuguese: em nenhum lugar
Chinese: 到处都无
Croatian: nigdje
Czech: nikde
Danish: ingen steder
Dutch: nergens
European Spanish: ningún otro sitio
Finnish: ei missään
French: nulle part
German: nirgendwo
Greek: πουθενά
Italian: da nessuna parte
Japanese: どこにも･･･ない
Korean: 아무데도 ... 없다(않다)
Norwegian: ingen steder
Polish: nigdzie
European Portuguese: em nenhum lugar
Romanian: nicăieri
Russian: нигде
Latin American Spanish: ningún otro sitio
Swedish: ingenstans
Thai: ไม่มีที่ไหน
Turkish: hiçbir yerde
Ukrainian: ніде
Vietnamese: không nơi nào
Chinese translation of 'nowhere'
nowhere
(ˈnəuwɛəʳ)
adv
(= no place) 无(無)处(處) (wúchù)
(emphatic) 没(沒)有地方 (méiyǒu dìfang)
nowhere else (= no place else) 没(沒)有其他地方 (méiyǒu qítā dìfang) (emphatic) 不在任何其他地方 (bù zài rènhé qítā dìfang)
to come/appear from or out of nowhere不知从(從)什么(麼)地方突然冒出来(來)/出现(現) (bùzhī cóng shénme dìfang tūrán mào chūlái/chūxiàn)
this is getting us nowhere, we're getting nowhere with this这(這)么(麼)做我们(們)只能一无(無)所获(獲) (zhème zuò wǒmen zhǐ néng yǐ wú suǒ huò)
in the middle of nowhere前不着(著)村，后(後)不着(著)店 (qián bù zháo cūn, hòu bù zháo diàn)