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ANYWHERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anywhere mean? 

ANYWHERE (adverb)
  The adverb ANYWHERE has 1 sense:

1. at or in or to any placeplay

  Familiarity information: ANYWHERE used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ANYWHERE (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

At or in or to any place

Synonyms:

anyplace; anywhere

Context example:

you can find this food anywhere

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)


 Context examples 


Spencer couldn't take me anywhere, nor you.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The key was not in the inner side of the door, nor could he find it anywhere in the room.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He never did wish us to go anywhere.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was no other sign of the fellow anywhere, though I ran all over the grounds.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You can choose to go anywhere, near or far, to take full advantage of the stardust about to fall over you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"You see," said the Cowardly Lion, with a whimper, "I haven't the courage to keep tramping forever, without getting anywhere at all."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

She felt incessant impulses to scream, to shriek, to collapse into the snow, to put her hands over her eyes and turn and run blindly away, into the forest, anywhere, away.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But, since you say that you were voyaging to Japan for your health, I can assure you that it will improve no better anywhere than aboard the Ghost.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I asked the waiter, and he said it was called paprika hendl, and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But I believe your opinion of him would in general astonish—and perhaps you would not express it quite so strongly anywhere else.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)



 Learn English with... Proverbs 
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