Anywhere vs Anyone - What's the difference?

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Anyone is a related term of anywhere.

As pronouns the difference between anywhere and anyone

is that anywhere is any location or an unknown location while anyone is any person; anybody.

As an adverb anywhere

is in or at any location or an unknown location.

anywhere

English

Adverb

(-)

In or at any location or an unknown location.

I don't know where I left my keys. They could be anywhere .

I'd rather be anywhere else.

To (in the direction of) any location or an unknown location.

Anywhere you go in France, there will be bread and wine with dinner .

I'm staying home today. I'm not going anywhere .

Are you going anywhere special this weekend?

Pronoun

(English Pronouns)

Any location or an unknown location.

Anywhere is better than here!

English compound determinatives

anyone

English

Alternative forms

* any one

Pronoun

(English Pronouns)

Any person; anybody.

* (George Bernard Shaw)

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=8 , passage= “[…] Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm straight, but this time I had six thousand quid at stake. […] I laid 'em long odds because it wasn't in the nature of things that Wynbolt could beat all of them champs. Then—then he smashed one after another, until I got windy—nervous as you might say. […]”}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}

Synonyms

* anybody