Somewhere vs Anywhere - What's the difference?
somewhere | anywhere | Related terms |
In an uncertain or unspecified location.
To an uncertain or unspecified location.
Unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.
* 1986 , Joel S. Goldsmith, A Parenthesis in Eternity: Living the Mystical Life , page 100:
* 2008 , Bill Watkins, The Once and Future Celt , page 283:
* 2012 , Thomas M. Kitts, Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty , page 6:
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.
Anywhere is a related term of somewhere.
As adverbs the difference between somewhere and anywhere
is that somewhere is in an uncertain or unspecified location while anywhere is in or at any location or an unknown location.As a noun somewhere
is unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.As a pronoun anywhere is
any location or an unknown location.somewhere
English
Adverb
(-)- I must have left my glasses somewhere .
- I've hidden some candies somewhere .
- 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 rainbowNoun
(en noun)- 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.
- A courting owl hoots in the somewheres of the night and another answers its call further off.
- and it transports the person to a somewhere', a ' somewhere that the music dictates.
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!
