Meanings
- archaicliterarynot comparableFrom somewhere.
... so that the said plain looked even as a wide green highway leading ... somewhence to somewhither.
1897, William Morris, “Chapter IV. Of the Slaying of Friend and Foe”, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), Project Gutenberg, published 2005, page 1572 more examples
For all beautiful things, no matter how fanciful, are somehow, somewhen, somewhence, true; and all true things, no matter how repellent, are somehow, somewhen, somewhence, beautiful.
1910, “Volume 50”, in Good Housekeeping Magazine, Indiana University, published 2008, page 157The stirring of the wind was pleasantly ominous to Reilly: it was quickening, encouraging, hostile to inertia; it came somewhence and was going somewhither.
1922, Katherine (Fullerton) Gerould, Lost Valley, a Novel, Harper, Pennsylvania State University, published 2010, page 437
Origin
Translations
Latin alicunde
- alicundefrom somewhere
Polish skądś
- skądśfrom somewhere
Russian откуда-то
- откуда-то (otkuda-to)from somewhere
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