elsewhere
/ˈɛlsˌʍɛɹ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.46 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Synonym of somewhere else: in, at, or to some other place.
noun
Synonym of somewhere else: a place other than here.
Example Sentences
- "If you won’t serve us, we’ll go elsewhere."
- "These particular trees are not to be found elsewhere."
- "Oh, had we some bright little isle of our own, / In a blue summer ocean far off and alone; / [...] / Where simply to feel that we breathe, that we live, / Is worth the best joys that life elsewhere can give."
- "He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair."
- "Many monuments sold in the US are crafted from granite produced in China, India and elsewhere overseas, while a lot of stone-working equipment comes from Europe."
- "We are back on the Ligurian coast, from which vertigos push human beings toward all kinds of elsewheres."
Etymology
From Middle English elswher, from Old English elles hwǣr and elles hwerġen (“elsewhere”); corresponding with else + where. Cognate with Old High German alleswār (“elsewhere”), whence Middle High German alleswā, alswā (“elsewhere”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɛlsˌʍɛɹ/
- British English: /ˌɛlsˈʍɛə/
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Places.