Somewhere vs Everywhere - What's the difference?
somewhere | everywhere | 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 to all locations under discussion.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (colloquial) In or to a few or more locations.
Everywhere is a related term of somewhere.
As adverbs the difference between somewhere and everywhere
is that somewhere is in an uncertain or unspecified location while everywhere is in or to all locations under discussion.As a noun somewhere
is unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or 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.
everywhere
English
Adverb
(-)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.}}
