Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Somewhere.
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- adjective
Somewhere , in some place. - adverb
Somewhere , in some place.
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Examples
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"Sutherland?" said Mr. Appleditch; "I think I've 'eard the name somewheres, but I don't know the face."
David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864
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"Oh, yes, sir," he replied, wrinkling up his forehead as if thinking deeply; "I've got a name somewheres, but I've never seemed to want it.
Through Forest and Stream The Quest of the Quetzal George Manville Fenn 1870
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"I'll call somewheres else," Jem Three said briefly.
Judith Lynn A Story of the Sea Annie Hamilton Donnell
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Sure enough, I was called somewheres along of four o'clock and the orderly led me inside the tent to Benny's cot.
Love, the Fiddler Lloyd Osbourne 1907
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I think "somewheres" comes from the increasingly popular txting spelling and grammar rules.
But Where are the Blue Birds? Jen 2008
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The part that said "over the rainbow", but then I got they just wrote "somewheres" over the rainbow...
But Where are the Blue Birds? Jen 2008
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All hidin 'somewheres' round my bed and layin there fer me.
Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Much more respectable in point of antiquity is the habit which obtains to some extent even among educated Americans, of saying "somewheres" and
America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890
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At the same time, as "somewheres" has become irremediably a vulgarism in England, it would, I think, be a graceful concession on the part of educated Americans to drop the "s."
America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890
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He said he would go "somewheres" and steal a lamp.
The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1872
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