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Someplace vs Somewhere - What's the difference?

someplace | somewhere |

Somewhere is a related term of someplace.

Somewhere is a synonym of someplace.



As adverbs the difference between someplace and somewhere

is that someplace is somewhere while somewhere is in an uncertain or unspecified location.

As a noun somewhere is

unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.

someplace

English

Adverb

(-)
  • (informal, chiefly, US) somewhere
    • We can't find the wretched thing, but it must be someplace
    English compound determinatives

    somewhere

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In an uncertain or unspecified location.
    • I must have left my glasses somewhere .
    I've hidden some candies somewhere .
  • To an uncertain or unspecified location.
    • He plans to go somewhere warm for his vacation.
    I have to go somewhere at lunch. Can I meet you at 2?

    Synonyms

    * someplace (US)

    Derived terms

    * somewhere over the rainbow

    Related terms

    * anywhere * everywhere * nowhere * somebody, someone * something

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.
  • * 1986 , Joel S. Goldsmith, A Parenthesis in Eternity: Living the Mystical Life , page 100:
    • We have come from somewhere and we are going somewhere, but because life is an unending circle, we are again going to come from a somewhere', and we are again going to go to a ' somewhere , and this will go on, and on, and on.
  • * 2008 , Bill Watkins, The Once and Future Celt , page 283:
    • A courting owl hoots in the somewheres of the night and another answers its call further off.
  • * 2012 , Thomas M. Kitts, Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty , page 6:
    • and it transports the person to a somewhere', a ' somewhere that the music dictates.
    English compound determinatives