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Elsewhere vs Everywhere - What's the difference?

elsewhere | everywhere |

As adverbs the difference between elsewhere and everywhere

is that elsewhere is in or at some other place or places; away while everywhere is in or to all locations under discussion.

As a noun elsewhere

is a place other than here; somewhere else.

elsewhere

English

Adverb

(-)
  • 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) citation , passage=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.}}
    These particular trees are not to be found elsewhere .
  • To some other place.
  • If you won’t serve us, we’ll go elsewhere .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place other than here; somewhere else.
  • * 2000 , Angela M Jeannet, Under the radiant sun and the crescent moon: Italo Calvino's storytelling
  • We are back on the Ligurian coast, from which vertigos push human beings toward all kinds of elsewheres .

    References

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    everywhere

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In or to all locations under discussion.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere . From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
  • (colloquial) In or to a few or more locations.
  • Antonyms

    * nowhere

    Derived terms

    * almost everywhere * everywhere else