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nowhere
OXFORD DICTIONARY
nowhere, adv. & pron.
--adv. in or to no place.
--pron. no place.
--adv. in or to no place.
--pron. no place.
Idiom
be (or come in) nowhere be unplaced in a race or competition. come from nowhere be suddenly evident or successful. get nowhere make or cause to make no progress. in the middle of nowhere colloq. remote from urban life. nowhere near not nearly.
Etymology
OE nahw{aelig}r (as NO(1), WHERE)
THESAURUS
nowhere
China, Darkest Africa, God knows where, Greenland, North Pole, Outer Mongolia, Pago Pago, Pillars of Hercules, Siberia, South Pole, Thule, Tierra del Fuego, Timbuktu, Ultima Thule, Yukon, antipodes, frontier, godforsaken place, in no place, jumping-off place, nowhither, outback, outer space, outpost, outskirts, pole, the Great Divide, the South Seas, the boondocks, the moon, the sticks, the tulliesROGET THESAURUS
nowhere
Absence
N absence, inexistence, nonresidence, absenteeism, nonattendance, alibi, emptiness, void, vacuum, vacuity, vacancy, tabula rasa, exemption, hiatus, lipotype, truant, absentee, nobody, nobody present, nobody on earth, not a soul, ame qui vive, absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home, missing, lost, wanting, omitted, nowhere to be found, inexistence, empty, void, vacant, vacuous, untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited, tenantless, barren, sterile, desert, deserted, devoid, uninhabitable, without, minus, nowhere, elsewhere, neither here nor there, in default of, sans, behind one's back, the bird has flown, non est inventus, absence makes the heart grow fonder, absent in body but present in spirit, absento nemo ne nocuisse velit, Achilles absent was Achilles still, aux absents les os, briller par son absence, conspicuous by his absence, in the hope to meet shortly again and make our abs.For further exploring for "nowhere" in Webster Dictionary Online