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Nowhere

[noh-hwair, -wair]

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adverb

in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.

to no place: We went nowhere last weekend.

noun

the state of nonexistence or seeming nonexistence: A gang of thieves appeared from nowhere.

anonymity or obscurity: She came from nowhere to win the championship.

an unknown, remote, or nonexistent place or region.

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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adjective Informal.

being or leading nowhere; pointless; futile: to be stuck in a nowhere job.

worthless or useless: That's a nowhere idea if I ever heard one.

Idioms

miles from nowhere, in a remote, isolated, or inaccessible area.

nowhere near, not nearly: There's nowhere near enough food to go around.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English (adv.); Old English nāhwǣr, nōhwǣr. See no¹, where

Usage note
See anyplace.

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Example Sentences

Nowhere is the scholarly community more real than at conferences and regional or national society meetings.

Nowhere is this clearer than on the issue of fiscal policy.

It was a blazing tropical morning in the middle of nowhere.

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Nowhere is the scholarly community more real than at conferences and regional or national society meetings.

Nowhere is this clearer than on the issue of fiscal policy.

It was a blazing tropical morning in the middle of nowhere.

And they are nowhere near as compact or energy efficient.

The islands' remote location resulted in the evolution of thousands of species that live nowhere else in the world.

Nowhere on the agency's website is the valley mentioned.

Nowhere is this clearer than in the game's art direction.

And while it's nowhere near a return to the go-go years preceding the recession, the moves represent a significant thaw.

Current rail projects will raise capacity substantially, by nowhere near that much.

Other canyons start where a spring sprouts from the base of a cliff as if out of nowhere.

Nowhere is this clearer than in the laboratory with monkeys.

We are in the middle of nowhere but the center of everything.

Or, it would switch to all caps when my hands were nowhere near the caps lock key.

But three years ago, a colleague asked him about something he'd never counted: applicants who came out of nowhere.

Many mammals roam these savannas, including the endangered giant eland that occurs nowhere else in the world.

If the money and profit is there, the food will mysteriously appear as if from nowhere.

Dinosaurs did not appear out of nowhere but were the modified descendants of earlier organisms.

Your faulty memory won't hold up in court next time some moron comes out of nowhere and hits you, but this will.

The changes may, as some commentators have argued, produce nowhere near as much change as has been claimed.

Within these islands' dense green montane forests lives a wide variety of birds and mammals--many found nowhere else in the world.

Interestingly, the sedentary animals showed no damage to their axons, despite the fact that beta spectrin was nowhere to be found.

They didn't come out of nowhere as people often think.

We are in the midst of an electric motorcycle revolution, and nowhere is that more obvious than on the racetrack.

Nowhere does the legislation mention ethnic studies.

Winds reaching the center of a low-pressure area have nowhere to go but up.

If the expansion of space was not faster, light would have nowhere to go.

But when these bonobos awaken, their signature behavior is nowhere in evidence.

But in many fields, there were nowhere near enough minority scholars in the pipeline.

Perhaps nowhere is this pattern more apparent than among the largest freshwater fish.

The adults were nowhere to be seen at low tide or during the day.

But all of these are generally nowhere to be heard in the summer.

The professors who were in their officers were not interacting with students, who were nowhere to be found.

These forests sustain a diversity of plants, land birds, and other species found here and nowhere else.

Africa has more tiles than found on other continents and ones that correspond to haplotypes found nowhere else.

There is wildlife here found nowhere else in the world.

And if personal income doesn't improve the economy is going nowhere.

Twelve of the species live almost nowhere else in the world.

It was a noble attempt, but it didn't prove out and is nowhere near as cheap as you claim.

Toilet paper materializes from nowhere for you to heave into the storied oaks.

Everyone was fiddling with cellphones, and there was nowhere to park.

Animals-some found here and nowhere else-lose their habitat and may begin to die out.

Nowhere else in the world, he says, has nature been so kind in preserving nearly pristine carriers of ancient magnetism.

There is absolutely nowhere to bike and if so, would be dangerous getting there.

When social media are blocked on a campus network, there may be nowhere to turn but cellphones.

Blanketed by rolling mountains, the isolated region is home to an abundance of wildlife, some found only here and nowhere else.

Power output for wind and solar is nowhere near the nameplate capacity.

It is nowhere near it's original color or weathering, and needs to be fixed.

Due to the particular combination of geology and climate, many rare plants are found nowhere else in the region.

Nowhere is this more the case than among the erigonines.

If these actions aren't controlled, the animals of this ecoregion will soon have nowhere else to go.

The cambrian explosion itself states that out of nowhere a majority of all phyla were created seemingly rapidly.

Species living high on tropical mountainsides, for example, have nowhere to go if temperatures warm their home turf.

So here, it says that radiation levels are nowhere near high enough to pose a health risk.

All of a sudden you'd be a few meters from an enormous bull elephant that seemed to come out of nowhere.

Nowhere in the article does it list the cause of death of any of these infants.

Nowhere else in the world are sport divers going so deep in such cold waters.

There is nowhere on earth to bury this much, even if you could transport it to the holes.

Midway is literally midway between nowhere and nowhere.

Much of the biodiversity found in cloud forests is endemic-it can be found nowhere else.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the sorry saga of.

Namibia's endless arid expanses are home to a menagerie of creatures that live nowhere else.

It may be tiny, but this fish has sparked a debate that's big-though nowhere near as ugly.

The students' gamma waves were nowhere near as strong or tuned.

There's nowhere more fun than this boulder-strewn, hermit-crab-crawling.

Nowhere are the cars so technologically advanced or success so dependent upon talent, bravery.

Nowhere is this truer than in the area of higher education.

The gypsies, who have lost the latest legal round in the fight to stay, say they have nowhere else to go.

Nowhere can you experience this shift more than on a weeklong, spa-to-spa loop.

My worry is if this much water continues to hold for a long time with nowhere to go, the estate might not make it".

The secret to a truly resonant disruptive technology is that it comes from nowhere to unseat an obvious, intuitive approach.

The message that war goes nowhere is as dreary as the racket generated by the work when it is moving.

Polar bears could face extinction, whales go hungry, and seals have nowhere to rest-all because of the.

Male pseudohermaphroditic pigs can be found here in relative abundance and nowhere else in the world.

But these communities of people simply didn't spring up out of nowhere to demand their due.

But nowhere else do so many people climb on their roofs to install.

The task of smoothing consumption is made more complicated if there is nowhere to store money safely.

Polar bears could face extinction, whales go hungry, and seals have nowhere to rest.

People will not come and ring your bell from nowhere.

Think of your underground subway commute, or maybe a weekend getaway spot in the middle of nowhere.

I've had the same problem before, though nowhere near as severe.

Nowhere is the transformation more noticeable than in the prevalence of diabetes, closely linked to over-eating and obesity.

And nowhere was this skill more apparent than in his career as a daredevil.

Nowhere are warriors shown capturing, killing, or mistreating noncombatants.

Nowhere in the video are the bomber and the bomb in the same shot.

Again, his name and the grade are nowhere to be seen.

Calls for new labour laws that reflect the growing prominence of internships have got nowhere.

Several species of oak and pine trees are found nowhere else.

But the show is frenzied and nowhere near as educational and interesting as the rest of the show.

Above all, you want to help people, and there is nowhere that they can hide in the long run.

And nowhere are green jobs more loudly promoted than in the rustbelt.

Nowhere else can paddlers easily get so close to the world's great icebergs.

So nowhere in the universe does intelligence last for any extended period.

Plans to turn the canoe-kayak centre into an entertainment sea park have similarly gone nowhere.

The island is home to plant and animal species found nowhere else, but the koala wasn't always among them.

It's as if a mainstream product appeared out of nowhere.

Nowhere in that post do you see me suggesting she be fired.

Nowhere is there the question as to whether it is real.

Conversely, schools that serve large numbers of disadvantaged students have nowhere to hide.

There the track stopped, but the mouse was nowhere to be seen.

But the battery, it is nowhere close to being perfected.

She sought her children, but they were nowhere to be found.

Nowhere in the setup does it say that there can only be one green block.

Keep your valuables close as there's nowhere to stash them on board.

When it tries to boil, the steam has nowhere to go because there's so much pressure keeping the water and steam inside the rocks.

Africa's only wolf species is on the run, but has nowhere to go.

Nowhere does it state that hybrid vehicles are no better for the environment than conventional vehicles.

And there's nowhere to go if food runs out-or a fire starts.

It is really entertaining to see how man-machine-consciousness debate is becoming clueless and going nowhere.

Nowhere in the article did it even imply that the hours saved by sleeping less should be used to work more.

There was a general movement towards greater complexity simply because there was nowhere else to go.

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World English Dictionary

nowhere (ˈnəʊˌwɛə)

—*adv*
1.	in, at, or to no place; not anywhere
2.	informal get nowhere, get nowhere fast to fail completely to make any progress
3.	nowhere near far from; not nearly

—n
4.	a nonexistent or insignificant place
5.	middle of nowhere a completely isolated, featureless, or insignificant place

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Word Origin & History

nowhere

O.E. nahwær; see no + where. Similar constructions were attempted with nowhat (1530) and nowhen (1764), but they failed to take hold and remain nonce words.

Slang Dictionary

nowhere definition

mod.
bad; no good; dull. : This place is really nowhere. Let's go.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

nowhere

In addition to the idiom beginning with nowhere, also see get nowhere; in the middle (of nowhere); out of nowhere.