nowhere

Use Nowhere in a sentence

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 scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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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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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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Etymonline

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.

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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.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Example sentences

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

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

but cellphones.

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

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

nowhere.