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FromMiddle Englishnowher, fromOld Englishnōhwēr,nāhwǣr, fromnā- +hwǣr. Bysurface analysis,no +‎where.

Adjective usage is taken from phrases likenowhere on the map (signifying the location was too small or too insignificant to be listed),nowhere you want to be, etc.

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nowhere (notcomparable)

  1. Innoplace.
    Nowhere did the rules say anything about popcorn.
    The keys arenowhere in the house.
  2. To no place.
    We sat in traffic, goingnowhere.

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in no place
to no place

Adjective

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nowhere (notcomparable)

  1. Unimportant; unworthy of notice.
    • 1872, “Reviews of Postal Publications”, inThe Stamp-Collector's Magazine, volume10,page110:
      As a foreign stamp gazette it isnowhere. An article on Stamp Collecting, by J. E. Gray, “reprinted from one of his books,” and a catalogue of stamps constitute its sole attraction. We are surprised to find such sounding pretentions so poorly supported.
    • 2008, Cricket Sawyer,Lavender Lust,→ISBN, page180:
      Elinore was such a bitch, such anowhere person.
    • 2012, Nicholas Borelli,Let No Man Be My Albatross,→ISBN, page247:
      He always allowed them to motivate him to a level of intensity to do better, rather than remain in anowhere life in anowhere place like Harlem.

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Noun

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nowhere (pluralnowheres)

  1. No particular place,noplace.
    They went on a cruise tonowhere.
    • 1912, Charles Inge, “Nemesis or Bad Luck?”, inThe Windsor magazine, volume36, page95:
      While they paced the platform of the station, they reviewed the career of misdemeanours—Nutley, Chiddiugstone, Midhurst, Penn, and manynowheres, and now Aylesbury.
    • 1976, “The Gambler”, Don Schlitz (lyrics):
      On a warm summer's evening On a train bound fornowhere I met up with the gambler
    • 1996 Oct,Indianapolis Monthly, volume20, number 2, page115:
      Oh, not the middle ofnowhere like the rest of Indiana, but anowhere so flat and ugly you want to lie down in a ditch and never get up again.
    • 2005, Dave Finkelstein with Jack London and Philip Caputo,Greater Nowheres: Wanderings Across the Outback, page xxiv:
      But someNowheres do still exist and are there to be found by any genuinely free spirit willing to hook a caravan behind his four-wheel-drive and dream, say, of finding that isolated campsite beside an as yet undiscovered waterhole

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