# nowhere
## English
### Alternative forms

* no where (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English nowher, from Old English nōhwēr, nāhwǣr, from nā- + hwǣr. By surface analysis, no +‎ where.
Adjective usage is taken from phrases like nowhere on the map (signifying the location was too small or too insignificant to be listed), nowhere you want to be, etc.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈnəʊ.wɛə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: no‧where

### Adverb

nowhere (not comparable)
* In no place.
    Nowhere did the rules say anything about popcorn.
    The keys are nowhere in the house.
* To no place.
    We sat in traffic, going nowhere.

#### Translations
### Adjective

nowhere (not comparable)
* Unimportant; unworthy of notice.
** 1872, “Reviews of Postal Publications”, in The Stamp-Collector's Magazine, volume 10, page 110:As a foreign stamp gazette it is nowhere. 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, page 180:Elinore was such a bitch, such a nowhere person.
** 2012, Nicholas Borelli, Let No Man Be My Albatross, →ISBN, page 247:He always allowed them to motivate him to a level of intensity to do better, rather than remain in a nowhere life in a nowhere place like Harlem.

#### Antonyms

* everywhere

#### Derived terms

* nowhere dense
* nowhere dense set

### Noun

nowhere (plural nowheres)
* No particular place, noplace.
    They went on a cruise to nowhere.
** 1912, Charles Inge, “Nemesis or Bad Luck?”, in The Windsor magazine, volume 36, page 95:While they paced the platform of the station, they reviewed the career of misdemeanours—Nutley, Chiddiugstone, Midhurst, Penn, and many nowheres, and now Aylesbury.
** 1976, “The Gambler”, Don Schlitz (lyrics):On a warm summer's evening On a train bound for nowhere I met up with the gambler
** 1996 Oct, Indianapolis Monthly, volume 20, number 2, page 115:Oh, not the middle of nowhere like the rest of Indiana, but a nowhere 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 some Nowheres 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

#### Derived terms

* all dressed up and nowhere to go
* all dressed up with nowhere to go
* arse end of nowhere
* bumfuck middle of nowhere
* bum fuck nowhere
* bum-fuck nowhere
* bumfuck nowhere
* from nowhere
* get nowhere fast
* go nowhere
* go nowhere fast
* lead nowhere
* middle of bumfuck nowhere
* middle of nowhere
* nowhere else
* nowhere income
* nowhere in sight
* nowhere near
* Nowheresville
* nowhere to be found
* nowhere to be seen
* out of nowhere
* run nowhere
* view from nowhere

#### Related terms

* anywhere, anyplace
* everywhere, everyplace
* somewhere, someplace
* nobody, no one
* nothing

### See also

* Thesaurus:quantifier

### Anagrams

* whereon