Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Not anywhere.
- adverb To no place or result.
- noun A remote or unknown place.
- noun A state of nonexistence.
- idiom (miles from nowhere) In a very remote place.
- idiom (nowhere near) Not nearly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not in any situation or state; in no place; not anywhere; by extension, at no time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Not anywhere; not in any place or state.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb
In no place . - adverb
To no place. - noun No particular place,
noplace .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an insignificant place
- adverb not anywhere; in or at or to no place
Etymologies
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Examples
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They call it "ember attack", but the term nowhere near describes the terrifying reality.
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May 19th, 2008 3: 42 pm ET caption: "I ain't goin 'nowhere' til I get my money back!"
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What has impressed as much as anything, apart from the speed of the rise from nowhere, is how at ease he has seemed at every one of the levels he so rapidly rose through.
Dan Cole the tighthead Tiger who is too good to ditch Michael Aylwin 2010
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So the article and the DPD page both refer to a large number of these open plots, but nowhere is there a map of them.
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A bridge to nowhere is a bad bridge, and they're all over the place.
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-- Fight for Internet Openness and Affordability Like We Mean It - Public policy often seems arcane to people's real-life struggles and nowhere is that more true than in the world of telecommunications policy.
Tracy Rosenberg: Broadband for the People: From the Net to the Roots Tracy Rosenberg 2010
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-- Fight for Internet Openness and Affordability Like We Mean It - Public policy often seems arcane to people's real-life struggles and nowhere is that more true than in the world of telecommunications policy.
Tracy Rosenberg: Broadband For The People: From The Net To The Roots Tracy Rosenberg 2010
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That all has to do with the Patriot Act. Yet, this county clerk in the middle of nowhere is able to thumb her nose at U.S. and South Dakota law and get away with it.
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-- Fight for Internet Openness and Affordability Like We Mean It - Public policy often seems arcane to people's real-life struggles and nowhere is that more true than in the world of telecommunications policy.
Tracy Rosenberg: Broadband For The People: From The Net To The Roots Tracy Rosenberg 2010
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-- Fight for Internet Openness and Affordability Like We Mean It - Public policy often seems arcane to people's real-life struggles and nowhere is that more true than in the world of telecommunications policy.
Tracy Rosenberg: Broadband for the People: From the Net to the Roots Tracy Rosenberg 2010
oroboros commented on the word nowhere
Be NowHere. Always.
June 3, 2007
bilby commented on the word nowhere
Former name of a marsh by the river Bure in Norfolk, England.
January 1, 2008
oroboros commented on the word nowhere
See abjurer for an interesting fact.
July 28, 2008