Somewhere vs Nowhere - What's the difference?
somewhere | nowhere | 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 no place.
To no place.
Nowhere is a related term of somewhere.
As adverbs the difference between somewhere and nowhere
is that somewhere is in an uncertain or unspecified location while nowhere is in no place.As nouns the difference between somewhere and nowhere
is that somewhere is unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location while nowhere is no particular place, noplace.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.
nowhere
English
Adverb
(-)- Nowhere did the rules say anything about popcorn.
- We sat in traffic, going nowhere .
