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[ adverb ] not anywhere; in or at or to no place
Examples "I am going nowhere" Used in print (Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)Nowhere have I seen public expression of anti-Catholicism . (Richard F. McLaughlin, et al., "A study of the...)Although Miller noted in 1907 that a difference in the pleural blood supply existed between animals , nowhere in his published works is it found that he did a comparative study of the intrapulmonary features of various mammalian lungs other_than in the dog and cat ( Miller , ' 13 ; ' 25 ) . (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)The children had nowhere to go and no place to play , not even sidewalks . (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)He might have been anywhere or nowhere . (Jane Gilmore Rushing, "Against the Moon,"...)They had cleaned_up an old ice_box and begun to buy fifty pound blocks of ice in town , as the electric_refrigerator came nowhere near providing enough ice for the crowds who ate and drank there . |
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[ noun ] an insignificant place
Examples "he came out of nowhere" Used in print (Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)Here in the God-forsaken place , the westerly end of nowhere , Tom_Lord looked almost insignificant , almost contemptible . Related terms |
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