otherwhere

English

Etymology

From other +‎ where. Compare German anderswo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʌðə(ɹ)wɛː(ɹ)/

Adverb

otherwhere (not comparable)

1. (now regional) Synonym of somewhere else: elsewhere, in or to some other place. [from 14th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And fared like a furious wyld Beare,
     Whose whelpes are stolne away, she being otherwhere.

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 6:

     ‘Come, Adrian. I think we should be otherwhere.’