Elsewhere vs Anywhere - What's the difference?
elsewhere | anywhere |
In or at some other place or places; away.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=John T. Jost
, title=Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?
, volume=100, issue=2, page=162
, magazine=(American Scientist)
To some other place.
A place other than here; somewhere else.
* 2000 , Angela M Jeannet, Under the radiant sun and the crescent moon: Italo Calvino's storytelling
In or at any location or an unknown location.
To (in the direction of) any location or an unknown location.
Any location or an unknown location.
As adverbs the difference between elsewhere and anywhere
is that elsewhere is in or at some other place or places; away while anywhere is in or at any location or an unknown location.As a noun elsewhere
is a place other than here; somewhere else.As a pronoun anywhere is
any location or an unknown location.elsewhere
English
Adverb
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- These particular trees are not to be found elsewhere .
- If you won’t serve us, we’ll go elsewhere .
Noun
(en noun)- We are back on the Ligurian coast, from which vertigos push human beings toward all kinds of elsewheres .
References
* *anywhere
English
Adverb
(-)- I don't know where I left my keys. They could be anywhere .
- I'd rather be anywhere else.
- 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)- Anywhere is better than here!
