nowhere

Noun · Adverb
US[noh-wair]/ˈnoʊˌwɛr/2 syllablesalso [nohh-wair] /ˈnoʊhˌwɛr/

Open English WordNet

Adverb (1)

  1. not anywhere; in or at or to no place“I am going nowhere”

Noun (1)

  1. an insignificant place“he came out of nowhere”Type of obscurity
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haphazardadjective

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Translations

Adverb in no place

German
nirgendwo
Portuguese
em nenhum lugar
Russian
нигде́ nigdé
Chinese
无处 wúchù
Dutch
nergens
Polish
nigdzie
Swedish
ingenstans
15 more languages
Greek
πουθενά pouthená
Hungarian
sehol
Portuguese (PT)
nenhures
Chinese (Trad.)
無處 wúchù
Catalan
enlloc
Czech
nikde
Esperanto
nenie
Georgian
არსად arsad
Icelandic
hvergi
Lithuanian
niekur
Norwegian
ingensteds
Romanian
nicăieri
Serbo-Croatian
nigdje
Slovenian
nikjer

The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

No′where′ adverb

Origin: AS. nāhwǣr. See No, and Where.

Not anywhere; not in any place or state; as, the book is nowhere to be found.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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