Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb In or to a different or another place.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In another place or in other places; somewhere or anywhere else: as, these trees are not to be found elsewhere.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In any other place.
  • adverb In some other place; in other places, indefinitely.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In or at some other place; away.
  • adverb To some other place.
  • noun A place other than here; somewhere else.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in or to another place

Etymologies

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From Old English elles + hwær; corresponding with else + where.

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Examples

  • It does not appear to me "unlike anything in any collection in the British Isles, or elsewhere" -- I mean _elsewhere_.

    The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore Andrew Lang 1878

  • [See below, p. 131 sq.] [15: 4] [He does however mention the term elsewhere; see below, p. 123.] [15: 5] II.p. 468, and elsewhere.

    Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858

  • I've seen the name elsewhere -- on music festival lineups or opening for the Cold War Kids at Radio City Music Hall -- other places than between the words "Bed" and "Beyond."

    Taryn Haight: 10 Electronic Music Acts to Catch at SXSW Taryn Haight 2011

  • I've seen the name elsewhere -- on music festival lineups or opening for the Cold War Kids at Radio City Music Hall -- other places than between the words "Bed" and "Beyond."

    Taryn Haight: 10 Electronic Music Acts to Catch at SXSW Taryn Haight 2011

  • Think of the sort of classic PKD novel where the elsewhere is a Mars colony in the future, but Dick basically portrays it as 1950's suburban America.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • Think of the sort of classic PKD novel where the elsewhere is a Mars colony in the future, but Dick basically portrays it as 1950's suburban America.

    Strange Fiction 6 Hal Duncan 2006

  • The song ... reference to a title elsewhere, momentary overlap, just ...

    jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2003

  • Thus early in his public career had Burke seized that great antithesis which he so eloquently laboured in the long and ever memorable episode of his war against the French Revolution: the opposition between artificial arrangements in politics, and a living, active, effective organisation, formed by what he calls elsewhere in the present tract the natural strength of the kingdom, and suitable to the temper and mental habits of the people.

    Burke Morley, John 1907

  • Hope of Israel and the Saviour thereof in time of trouble_, and _Hasidh, or Loyal-in-Love_, (791) a term elsewhere applied only to men.

    Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 George Adam Smith 1899

  • Besides, the Hebrew word elsewhere, when connected with sin, means to bear it and its punishment (Eze 18: 20).

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

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    July 13, 2007

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    July 13, 2007