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anyone | nowhere |

As a pronoun anyone

is any person; anybody.

As an adverb nowhere is

in no place.

As a noun nowhere is

no particular place, noplace.

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

    Related terms

    * anybody * anywhere * anything * no one * everyone * someone

    nowhere

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In no place.
    • Nowhere did the rules say anything about popcorn.
  • To no place.
    • We sat in traffic, going nowhere .

    Antonyms

    * everywhere

    Derived terms

    * nowhere dense * nowhere dense set

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • No particular place, noplace.
    • They went on a cruise to nowhere .
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    • Derived terms

    * all dressed up and nowhere to go * middle of nowhere * Nowheresville

    Related terms

    * anywhere, anyplace * everywhere, everyplace * somewhere, someplace * nobody, no one * nothing

    Anagrams

    * English compound determinatives