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单词 nowhere
释义 no·where
I. \ˈnōˌ(h)we](ə)r, -wa(a)], ]ə; when a stressed syllable, as “else,” follows, sometimes -ōwə(r)\ adverb
Etymology: Middle English nowher, from Old English nāhwær, from no + hwær where, anywhere — more at where
1.
 a. : not anywhere : not in or at any place
  < the book is nowhere to be found >
  < he discovered gold nowhere >
  < has property everywhere and a home nowhere >
 b. : to no place
  < has gone nowhere for months >
2. : not in any part of a book : in no written work or writer
 < this word is nowhere used by Shakespeare >
 < these facts are nowhere stated >
3.
 a. : far behind : out of the running
  < is nowhere when it comes to the race for class president >
  < a dazzling exhibition of grace and beauty that left her rivals nowhereCurrent Biography >
 b. : to no position or state of advancement
  < a project going nowhere >
  < the team will get nowhere this year >
II. noun
1. : a place that does not exist
 < as if all truth was gone out, and night and nowhere had the world — Horace Bushnell >
2. : an unknown or undeveloped place : wilderness
 < lost forever in the nowhere of South America — Marcia Davenport >
 < the lumbermen, construction workers and miners who are carving towns out of nowhere in Canada — Bill Wolf >
3. : a state of not existing or of not being known to exist
 < out of the nowhere into the here came trouble — W.A.White >
 < an officer appeared from nowhere to strike the soldier sharply — Kenneth Roberts >
 < a gossipy, clucking crowd materialized from nowhere — Anne S. Mehdevi >
4. : a state of being unknown : obscurity
 < starting from nowhere, he became a leading politician in a few years >
 < came out of nowhere to become a big-league star >
5. : an inhabited place
 < found a cattleman with a broken leg miles from nowhere — Ellen Buell >
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