Elsewhere

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /ˌɛlsˈʍɛːə/
• US IPA: /ˈɛlsˌʍɛːɹ/

Origin

From Old English elles + hwær; corresponding with else + where.

Full definition of elsewhere

Adverb

1. In or at some other place or places; away.
• 2012, John T. Jost, Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?, He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
2. These particular trees are not to be found elsewhere.
3. To some other place.If you won’t serve us, we’ll go elsewhere.

Related terms

• elsewhence
• elsewhither

Noun

1. A place other than here; somewhere else.
• 2000, Angela M Jeannet, Under the radiant sun and the crescent moon: Italo Calvino's storytellingWe are back on the Ligurian coast, from which vertigos push human beings toward all kinds of elsewheres.