Nowhere

Pronunciation

Origin

no + where

Full definition of nowhere

Adverb

1. In no place.Nowhere did the rules say anything about popcorn.
2. To no place.We sat in traffic, going nowhere.

Antonyms

• everywhere

Derived terms

• nowhere dense
• nowhere dense set

Noun

1. No particular place, noplace.They went on a cruise to nowhere.
• 1912, Charles Inge, Nemesis or Bad Luck?, While they paced the platform of the station, they reviewed the career of misdemeanours—Nutley, Chiddiugstone, Midhurst, Penn, and many nowheres, and now Aylesbury.
• 1996, Oct, Oh, not the middle of nowhere like the rest of Indiana, but a nowhere so flat and ugly you want to lie down in a ditch and never get up again.
• 2005, Dave Finkelstein, Greater Nowheres: Wanderings Across the Outback, But some Nowheres do still exist and are there to be found by any genuinely free spirit willing to hook a caravan behind his four-wheel-drive and dream, say, of finding that isolated campsite beside an as yet undiscovered waterhole

Derived terms

• all dressed up and nowhere to go
• middle of nowhere
• Nowheresville

Related terms

• anywhere, anyplace
• everywhere, everyplace
• somewhere, someplace
• nobody, no one
• nothing

Anagrams

• whereon