somewhere

1. not comparableIn an uncertain or unspecified location.

   I must have left my glasses somewhere.

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   I've hidden candy somewhere in this room.

2. not comparableTo an uncertain or unspecified location.

   He plans to go somewhere warm for his vacation.

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   I have to go somewhere at lunch. Can I meet you at 2?

3. not comparableAt some unspecified point.

   I don't remember the exact number, but it was somewhere between 200 and 300.

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   When a train has to ascend the incline, it first runs down, engine first, from the station about 60 or 70 yards. Then comes behind it the aforesaid truck, or one similar, which, being attached to an endless wire rope, a communication is made by means of the electric telegraph to the engineman at the top of the incline, when the fixed engine begins to work, and the train, partly pulled by the locomotive before, and partly pushed by the truck behind, rapidly ascends, taking somewhere about three minutes to get up.

   1957 September 28, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 620, from Herapath's Journal

plural somewheres

1. Unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.

   This is essentialised place: a somewhere that is nowhere and yet everywhere.

   2015 November 1, Clare Brennan, “The Oresteia review – strong performances at odds with the setting”, in The Observer

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   We have come from somewhere and we are going somewhere, but because life is an unending circle, we are again going to come from a somewhere, and we are again going to go to a somewhere, and this will go on, and on, and on.

   1986, Joel S. Goldsmith, A Parenthesis in Eternity: Living the Mystical Life, page 100

   A courting owl hoots in the somewheres of the night and another answers its call further off.

   2008, Bill Watkins, The Once and Future Celt, page 283

   […] and it transports the person to a somewhere, a somewhere that the music dictates.

   2012, Thomas M. Kitts, Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty, page 6

2. informaluncommonA person with strong cultural or social ties that are exclusive to a specific place.

   Antonyms: anywhere, cosmopolite