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somewhere English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word somewhere once they have reached the level A1 – Beginner. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning somewhere meaning

What does somewhere mean?

Definitions in simple English

somewhere Determiner

— A place, but you do not say or know exactly where.

somewhere

— adverb (= someplace) in or at or to some place; ; ('someplace' is used informally for 'somewhere') she must be somewhere

— noun an indefinite or unknown location they moved to somewhere in Spain

Synonyms somewhere synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as somewhere?

somewhere English » English

anywhere

someplace

in some place

where

to some place

approximately

something

nowhere

everywhere

wherever

that area

somewhence

sometime

some place

just about

in some respects

in any place

around there

anyplace

about

I guess

Topics somewhere topics

What do people use somewhere to talk about?

States Location Here, there

Indefinite location

• What words refer to an indefinite location?
  somewhere anywhere someplace anyplace where here there over there any old place wherever who knows where could be anywhere undisclosed location location unknown here and there whereabouts hereabouts thereabouts

Grammar Part of speech Pronouns

Indefinite pronouns

• What pronouns express indefinite reference of a place?
  place where somewhere anywhere everywhere nowhere each place wherever which way

States Quantity All Exact

Approximate

• What words indicate that a particular number or amount is approximate?
  about approximately roughly give or take at a guess somewhere in the region of an estimated some something like in round numbers close to

States Location Be at a place

Absent

• What words indicate that something or someone is not in a particular place?
  be absent not be here not be around be out not be in be away missing be off not be at not be there absence be gone not present be away nowhere to be found out of sight truant absent without leave AWOL missing in action not show up make yourself scarce minus someone be lacking lose elsewhere somewhere else

States Location

Spatial relations

• What words indicate that a situation happened at a different place as another situation?
  somewhere else elsewhere

Examples somewhere examples

How do I use somewhere in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I remember seeing her somewhere.

I must have made a mistake somewhere.

He could still be alive somewhere.

At least I have somewhere to sleep.

Tom is here somewhere.

I forgot my glasses somewhere.

By the time they get up it will be too late to have a fun day out somewhere.

Let's go somewhere quiet so we can talk.

Your closet is already packed. You will have to make room for the new clothes you bought somewhere else.

Tom says he heard that Mary needed to find somewhere else to live.

You're going somewhere this afternoon, aren't you?

I can drive you somewhere if you want me to.

I have gone astray somewhere in my calculations.

Bill is 20 minutes late. He must have gotten lost somewhere.

I had my money stolen somewhere.

Let's have a tea break somewhere around there.

The treasure is believed to lie hidden somewhere in the mountain.

Can't you see a stapler somewhere around there?

The balloon was carried away somewhere by the wind.

The street is somewhere along here.

There is a mailbox somewhere along this street.

Could you put this coat somewhere?

I put my lighter down somewhere and now I can't find it.

It's five o'clock somewhere now.

I remember seeing you somewhere.

I remember meeting you somewhere.

I remember hearing that music somewhere.

I have seen that face somewhere before.

It seems that I met you somewhere.

I saw her somewhere two years ago.

I lost my wallet somewhere around here.

If you need me, I'll be somewhere around.

Movie subtitles

You should have gone somewhere else.why on a Sunday?

Somewhere wonderful.

That means he'll be sent somewhere else.

We are right on the cusp of being able to say life exists somewhere else.

All of our searching is leading to one ultimate goal.. finding intelligent life somewhere in the vastness of the universe.

And ultimately, our goal is to see if that's happened somewhere else in the universe.

With so many stars and so many planets out there, it would truly be a surprise if intelligent life did not exist somewhere in the universe, perhaps even nearby in our own galaxy.

Got some traps set up along this way somewhere.

Are you hurt somewhere?

Well, he's obviously around here somewhere.

Since your dark pieces won, there would be many people dead somewhere.

She should have some broken body parts somewhere.

The rest of you divide yourselves up among the three roads and hide somewhere along the way.

I'm sorry, I, um, I needed somewhere to drink, and I thought, I thought you'd be at school.

Someone's hacking this in from somewhere!

Hey, I got to be somewhere, pal.

She could've done it somewhere else, anywhere else, and I wouldn't have been the one to find her.

There should be a corridor somewhere leading underground.

Even if at a distance, he's watching from somewhere, or he couldn't target us so accurately.

But if that's the case, then entropy must also be increasing somewhere else.

He will be lounging around somewhere in some far off country!

Someday. Somewhere. Our trails will cross again.

I'm sorry, folks but we'll have to go somewhere else.

Shall we go somewhere?

Let me show you somewhere he'll never escape from.

I suppose you'll be going somewhere with gordon.

Now we're beginning to get somewhere.

There's a catch in this somewhere.

Then how about spending the time in-between somewhere and do it over dinner?

ON A BEACH SOMEWHERE WITH HIS TRUST FUND.

Oh. I had a feeling from the start that my journey this time around would be auspicious somewhere along the way.

If it's any consolation, I'm sure somewhere, deep down, he knew you hated him.

We can go somewhere out of this wind.

I was around here somewhere.

I dropped my pair somewhere in the arena and Roger was in desperate need of a little trim.

A canal, somewhere in France.

I'll work somewhere else.

News and current affairs

As you read this, perfectly ordinary people somewhere in the world are doing unspeakable things to others.

Investment bankers wait with bated breath for the merger and acquisition league tables, even though the link between a high ranking and profitability is somewhere between loose and non-existent.

All crop plants have relatives somewhere, and some gene flow commonly occurs if the two populations are grown close together.

If making a product in the EU costs more because of higher energy costs, the product will likely be made somewhere else, where energy is cheaper, and then imported into the EU.

Global power must be allocated somewhere; if the US would not fill its leading role on the international stage, an understudy would have to step in.

That, in turn, may cause higher investment or asset bubbles, as businesses seek to reinvest their savings somewhere.

If all of Colombia's farmers stopped growing coca tomorrow, unrestrained demand by the world's 13 million cocaine users would quickly generate as much cultivation somewhere else.

The truth probably lies somewhere in between.

Even if a majority of Americans agree that climate change is real, future disasters seem a long way off, or might happen somewhere else, so why worry about them now?

Hardly a day goes by on which we do not hear of a government minister somewhere resigning his or her office.

That, it seems, is what has happened somewhere in the American chain of command.

Most people are practical enough to see that when, say, they have to go to the hospital for tests, what matters is whether the right kind of diagnostic machine is there for them, not whether there is a better machine for others somewhere else.

Other European countries (for example, Italy and Spain) fall somewhere between these poles.

His proposal - which lies somewhere between the extremes of building a wall on the US-Mexican frontier and open borders on the other - is the right approach when guest workers could be disguised terrorists.

The Chinese component of America's multilateral trade deficit will simply migrate somewhere else - most likely to a higher-cost producer.

Indeed, I can attest from personal experience that to debate her is to encounter someone who is absolutely certain of facts that must exist somewhere in a parallel universe.

There is a huge difference between potential deposits hidden somewhere in large shale formations and recoverable reserves that can actually be produced economically.

The 2003 World Press Freedom report put out by the group Reporters without Borders ranks China 161st among 166 nations, somewhere between Iran and North Korea.

Somewhere in the system, accountability for stability and sustainability in terms of asset valuation, leverage, and balance sheets will need to be assigned and taken seriously.

A couple of weeks later, I was faced with one of those conflicts: a board meeting here, a conference there, another opportunity at the same time somewhere else.

The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle - the microfinance sector has made some mistakes, which politicians have exaggerated in an effort to destroy an industry that undermines them by making the poor more independent.

After reviewing case reports of nicotine intoxications and suicide attempts, the pharmacologist Bernd Mayer found that the lethal dose of nicotine in humans must be somewhere between 500-1000 mg of absorbed - not just ingested - nicotine.

Most of the food consumed by Americans is either genetically modified or exposed to genetic modification somewhere in the production process.

Moreover, enforcement of the rights that do exist is trapped somewhere between ineptitude and corruption.

Somewhere out there, gunning for Musharraf, are Islamic militants furious at being dumped after they fought his covert wars in Afghanistan and Kashmir.

Rarely a month passes in which a water crisis does not make headlines somewhere in the world.

When the peat ignites, the fire can creep beneath the surface and erupt somewhere else, days or weeks later.