otherwhere

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English

Etymology

From other +‎ where. Compare German anderswo.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

otherwhere (not comparable)

  1. (now regional) Synonym of somewhere else: elsewhere, in or to some other place. [from 14th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.11:
      And fared like a furious wyld Beare,
      Whose whelpes are stolne away, she being otherwhere.
    • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 6:
      ‘Come, Adrian. I think we should be otherwhere.’
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