Definition of Nowhere

1. Noun. An insignificant place. "He came out of nowhere"

Generic synonyms: Obscurity

2. Adverb. Not anywhere; in or at or to no place. "I am going nowhere"

Definition of Nowhere

1. adv. Not anywhere; not in any place or state; as, the book is nowhere to be found.

Definition of Nowhere

1. Adverb. In no place. ¹

2. Adverb. To no place. ¹

3. Noun. No particular place, noplace. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nowhere

1. a nonexistent place [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nowhere

nowcast
nowcasting
nowcasts
nowch
nowches
nowd
nowdays
nowds
nowed
nowel
nowell
nowells
nowels
nowhen
nowhence
nowhere (current term)
nowhere else
nowhere to be found
nowheres
nowhile
nowhither
nowise
nowl
nowls
nown
nowness
nownesses
nows
nowthe

Literary usage of Nowhere

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... and the diurnal tides in the Atlantic Ocean east of the United States. that this component nowhere points from the equator toward the poles; ..."

2. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"But I had the start cf them ; and when I stopped the driver, and got out, they were nowhere in sight. I crossed Hyde Park, and made sure, on the open ground ..."

3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Alas, so many I behold, and know : But two not less of mark, I nowhere see, Castor a matchless champion on his car, ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It has been objected, however, that it contains some words nowhere else used by ... \ey6/um employed nowhere else, and the vocabulary of all authors changes ..."

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