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FROM NOWHERE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does from nowhere mean?
• FROM NOWHERE (adverb)
The adverb FROM NOWHERE has 1 sense:
1. without warning
Familiarity information: FROM NOWHERE used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without warning
Synonyms:
from nowhere; out of nothing; out of thin air
Context example:
your cousin arrived out of thin air
Context examples
She smiled to herself at vagrant impulses which arose from nowhere and suggested that she rumple his hair; while he desired greatly, when they tired of reading, to rest his head in her lap and dream with closed eyes about the future that was to be theirs.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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