nowhere
Part of speech: adv
adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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.
Inflected forms:
form: no where
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: no where
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: nowheres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: no where
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: In no place.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Nowhere did the rules say anything about popcorn.
The keys are nowhere in the house.
gloss: To no place.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We sat in traffic, going nowhere.
If you forget to do this, your interlock circuit won't be made and you'll be going nowhere.
gloss: Unimportant; unworthy of notice.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
Elinore was such a bitch, such a nowhere person.
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.
gloss: No particular place, noplace.
pos: noun
examples: They went on a cruise to nowhere.
While they paced the platform of the station, they reviewed the career of misdemeanours—Nutley, Chiddiugstone, Midhurst, Penn, and many nowheres, and now Aylesbury.
On a warm summer's evening On a train bound for nowhere I met up with the gambler
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.
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
Antonyms: everywhere
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: إِلَى لَا مَكَان
roman: ʔilā lā makān
lang: Azerbaijani
word: heç yerə
lang: Azerbaijani
word: heç yana
lang: Bashkir
word: бер ҡайҙа ла
roman: ber qayźa la
lang: Belarusian
word: нікуды́
roman: nikudý
lang: Bulgarian
word: наникъде
roman: nanikǎde
lang: Catalan
word: enlloc
lang: Czech
word: nikam
lang: Danish
word: ingen vegne
lang: Danish
word: ikke fremad
lang: Dutch
word: nergens heen
lang: Dutch
word: nergens naartoe
lang: Esperanto
word: nenien
lang: Finnish
word: ei minnekään
lang: Finnish
word: ei mihinkään
lang: French
word: nulle part
lang: Galician
word: ningures
lang: German
word: nirgendwohin
lang: German
word: nirgendshin
lang: Greek
word: πουθενά
roman: pouthená
lang: Haitian Creole
word: okenn kote
lang: Hungarian
word: sehová
lang: Hungarian
word: sehova
lang: Ido
word: adnulaloke
lang: Ingrian
word: kuhukaa
lang: Italian
word: da nessuna parte
lang: Japanese
word: どこへも
roman: doko-emo
lang: Kapampangan
word: nokarinmo
lang: Kapampangan
word: nokarinpamo
lang: Latin
word: nequo
lang: Old English
word: nāhwider
lang: Old English
word: nāhwǣr
lang: Persian
word: هیچجا
roman: hič-jâ
lang: Persian
word: ناکجا
roman: nâkojâ
lang: Polish
word: donikąd
lang: Russian
word: никуда́
roman: nikudá
lang: Slovak
word: nikam
lang: Slovak
word: nikde
lang: Spanish
word: a ninguna parte
lang: Spanish
word: a ningún lugar
lang: Spanish
word: a ningún lado
lang: Swedish
word: ingenstans
lang: Ukrainian
word: нікуди́
roman: nikudý
lang: Welsh
word: i unman
lang: Welsh
word: i unlle
lang: Welsh
word: i nunlle