nowhere

What it means

1. not comparableIn no place.

   The keys are nowhere in the house.

   1 more example

   Nowhere did the rules say anything about popcorn.

2. not comparableTo no place.

   We sat in traffic, going nowhere.

   1 more example

   If you forget to do this, your interlock circuit won't be made and you'll be going nowhere.

In a sentence

Nowhere did the rules say anything about popcorn.

Where it comes from

1. Old Englishnōhwēr
2. Middle Englishnowher
3. Englishnowhere

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.