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Definition: Nowhere |
NowhereAdverb1. Not anywhere; in or at or to no place; "I am going nowhere". Noun1. An insignificant place; "he came out of nowhere". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nowhere" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence | Adverb: without, minus, nowhere; elsewhere; neither here nor there; in default of; sans; behind one's back. |
Adjective: absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home; missing; lost; wanting; omitted; nowhere to be found; inexistence. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nowhere |
| English words defined with "nowhere": louvar, Luvarus imperialis ♦ No whither, Nowhither, Nullibiety ♦ thin air. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nowhere": Fairs ♦ Multitude ♦ Narrowdale Noon, Nowhere near so ♦ philosophy ♦ Save the Mark, stealth manager. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "nowhere": Nullibiety. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I was just nowhere near your neighborhood (Singles; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) This is just a dirty little village in the middle of nowhere. Nothing that happens here is really important (High Noon; writing credit: Carl Foreman) Nowhere I go feels right (Moonlight and Valentino; writing credit: Ellen Simon) Looks like I'm going nowhere! I have to go finish cleaning those 'droids (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas) And at the moment it's nowhere near enough (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) | |
Lyrics | On a road that goes to nowhere (Nowhere To Go; performing artist: Melissa Etheridge) Sitting in his Nowhere Land, (Nowhere Man (Lennon/McCartney); performing artist: The Beatles) When there's nowhere to go (Things We Do For Love; performing artist: 10 CC) By yourself, nowhere to go (When Somebody Loves You; performing artist: Alan Jackson) Now here to run ain't got nowhere to go ("Born in the U.S.A."; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) | |
Clever | A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial. (references; author: Mark Twain) Boldly Going Nowhere. (references; author: unknown) If the road you travel has no obstacles, it leads nowhere. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Long Way from Nowhere (1970) Journey Into Nowhere (1962) Escape to Nowhere (1961) Nowhere to Go (1958) The Gentleman from Nowhere (1948) | |
Song Titles | Nowhere To Run (performing artist: Martha and The Vandellas) Nowhere To Go (performing artist: Melissa Etheridge) Nowhere Man (performing artist: The Beatles) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Taking the train to nowhere Taking a day off in Coffeyville Triangulation party of Carl I. Aslakson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Alijos Rocks in the middle of nowhere off the Mexican Coast. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Drug abuse : ...escape to nowhere. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Steps that lead to nowhere (after the fire). Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | In the middle of nowhere!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Bridge to Nowhere" by Tjeerd Doosje Commentary: "Walking in nature this evening I spotted this bridge. It looks like it's a bridge to nowhere, but you cán move on at the end of this bridge. Oh and the wood itself was painted pale blue, so it's not the photo that has a touch of blue. Thanks for having a" | "Dawn tree" by Csaba Magyar Commentary: "It was in the middle of nowhere, several miles from the city of Pecs, walking to a villa." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Geoffrey Chaucer | Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was. |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. |
Thomas Carlyle | Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. |
Voltaire | God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | There was wild and ghastly scenery all around her, and a home and comfort nowhere. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He went nowhere save on condition of ruling there |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The more common are simple phobia (in which the panic occurs immediately before or upon exposure to the feared situation and nowhere else) and social phobias in which they occur only when individuals feel they are the focus of others' attention (e.g. while eating). (references) | |
Business | This is partly due to the fact that many people, particularly those living in towns and cities, have nowhere to park their vehicles at night other than in the street. (references) | |
The future market for renewable energy equipment and services in Argentina will be quite dynamic and with such strong support from these organizations, it is possible that a renewable energy boom might take place as nowhere seen in the Southern Hemisphere. (references) | ||
However, it has also been suggested that Thailand should avoid “jumping up to technologies”, and that most proposed municipal incinerator plants are little more than show pieces of technology, too expensive to maintain and nowhere near the capacity to handle the amount of waste being generated. (references) | ||
Children | Bangladesh | After sustaining a physical disability, women sometimes are "replaced" within their families and have nowhere to go. The economic condition of most families limits their ability to assist with the special needs of a person with disabilities, and superstition and fear of persons with disabilities in society sometimes result in their isolation. (references) |
Economic History | Indonesia | While in the medium and long term the possibilities are virtually endless in a market of 220 million potential customers, one immediate prospect that has leaped out of virtually nowhere is pollution control equipment. (references) |
Human Rights | Bolivia | If such children have nowhere else to go, the Government considers it more humane to support them in prison than to leave them homeless. (references) |
Political Economy | Japan | The LDP's strong protection for Japan's inefficient farmers against the interests of the majority of Japanese consumers is infamous, but the Japan Medical Association works closely with the LDP to thwart needed changes in Japan's healthcare system and Japan's construction firms are locked in an unholy alliance with LDP politicians to build roads to nowhere and ozymandian edifices at the public expense. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. "In a multitude of consellors there is wisdom," saith the proverb. If many men of equal individual wisdom are wiser than any one of them, it must be that they acquire the excess of wisdom by the mere act of getting together. Whence comes it? Obviously from nowhere -- as well say that a range of mountains is higher than the single mountains composing it. A multitude is as wise as its wisest member if it obey him; if not, it is no wiser than its most foolish. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | We're nowhere near the earth's capacity, which is yet another myth. |
Sally Jessy Raphael | Well, they never said that to me. So I don't know. What they have said to me is I'm in pain. What they have said to me is, I'm at a crossroads and I have nowhere to go. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We cannot hope to build a just and humane society at home if we ignore the humanitarian claims of refugees, their lives at stake, who have nowhere else to turn. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Human freedom is on the march, and nowhere more so than our own hemisphere. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | After a lifetime of work, they are left with nowhere to turn. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Nowhere" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nowhere" is used about 2,359 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 2,359 | 3,775 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nowhere": be nowhere ♦ from nowhere ♦ he was nowhere ♦ in the middle of nowhere ♦ lead to nowhere ♦ nowhere else ♦ nowhere in particular ♦ nowhere near ♦ nowhere special ♦ nowhere to be found ♦ out of nowhere. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "nowhere": nowhere-he. | |
Ending with "nowhere": anti-nowhere, middle-of-nowhere. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "nowhere"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | nêrens nie. (various references) | |
Albanian | kurrkund, askund. (various references) | |
Arabic | ليس الي أي مكان, لا مكان, إلي لا مكان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | несъществуващо място, непознато място, никъде (anywhere), затънтено място (backwater, corner, hole, jumping-off-place), далечно място, далеч не (no, nothing). (various references) | |
Chinese | 無處 , 无处. (various references) | |
Czech | nikde (anywhere, no place), nikam. (various references) | |
Danish | intetsteds, ingensteds. (various references) | |
Dutch | nergens, in geen velden of wegen. (various references) | |
Esperanto | nenie. (various references) | |
Faeroese | ongastaðni. (various references) | |
Farsi | هیچ کجا, هیچ جا, درهیچ مکان . (various references) | |
Finnish | ei missään. (various references) | |
French | nulle part. (various references) | |
Frisian | nearne. (various references) | |
German | nirgends (not anywhere), nirgendwo (not anywhere). (various references) | |
Greek | πουθενά (anywhere). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | kurrkund, askurrkund, askund, asgjëkundi. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשום מקום, בשום מקום לא. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sehova, sehol (anywhere, nowhere else). (various references) | |
Icelandic | hvergi. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tidak dimanapun juga. (various references) | |
Italian | in nessun luogo (anywhere). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 影も形も無い (disappear without a trace, nowhere to be seen), 影も形もない (disappear without a trace, nowhere to be seen), どう致しまして (beat, confusion, copiously, don't mention it, feeling a shock, feeling shocked or startled, gushingly, in a steady stream, profusely, startling, suddenly disappears somewhere, suddenlyout of nowhere, throb, turmoil, Who on earth?, you are welcome). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | どこからともなく (suddenlyout of nowhere), かげもかたちもない (disappear without a trace, nowhere to be seen). (various references) | |
Manx | boayl erbee (any place, anywhere, wherever). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owherenay.(various references) | |
Polish | nigdzie. (various references) | |
Portuguese | em nenhuma parte. (various references) | |
Romanian | niciunde (noplace), nicãieri (anywhere, anywhere else, noplace). (various references) | |
Russian | некуда, негде, никуда, нигде;никуда, нигде. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nikud, nigde. (various references) | |
Spanish | en ninguna parte. (various references) | |
Swedish | ingenstans (no place), ingenstädes (no place). (various references) | |
Thai | ไม่มีที่ไหน. (various references) | |
Turkish | hiçbir yere, hiçbir yerde, hiçbir yer, híçbír yerde. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нікуди (anywhere, nowhither), ніде (noplace, nowhither). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không nơi nào, không ở đâu không được đến. (various references) | |
Yucatec | mixtu'ux. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nusquam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 9, Verse 58 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eipen autw o ihsouV ai alwpekeV fwleouV ecousin kai ta peteina tou ouranou kataskhnwseiV o de uioV tou anqrwpou ouk ecei pou thn kefalhn klinh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et ait illi Iesus vulpes foveas habent et volucres caeli nidos Filius autem hominis non habet ubi caput reclinet |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þa cwæþ se hælend: foxas habbað holu and heofones fuglas nestþ; Soðlice mannes sunu næfþ hwar he hys heafod ahylde; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Jhesus seide to hym, Foxis han dennes, and briddis of the eir han nestis, but mannus sone hath not where he reste his heed. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Iesus sayd vnto him: foxes have holes and bryddes of ye ayer have nestes: but the sonne of man hath not where on to laye his heed. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have resting-places, but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 9, Verse 58 |
| Cebuano | Si Jesus mitubag kaniya, "Ang mga milo adunay kalobluban, ug ang mga langgam sa kalangitan adunay kabatugan; apan ang Anak sa Tawo walay dapit nga kapahulayan sa iyang ulo." |
| Croatian | Reèe mu Isus: "Lisice imaju jazbine, ptice nebeske gnijezda, a Sin Èovjeèji nema gdje bi glavu naslonio." |
| Danish | Og Jesus sagde til ham: "Ræve have Huler, og Himmelens Fugle Reder; men Menneskesønnen har ikke det, hvortil han kan hælde sit Hoved." |
| Dutch | En Jezus zeide tot hem: De vossen hebben holen, en de vogelen des hemels nesten; maar de Zoon des mensen heeft niet, waar Hij het hoofd nederlegge. |
| Finnish | Niin Jeesus sanoi hänelle: "Ketuilla on luolat ja taivaan linnuilla pesät, mutta Ihmisen Pojalla ei ole, mihin hän päänsä kallistaisi". |
| German | Und Jesus sprach zu ihm: Die Füchse haben Gruben, und die Vögel unter dem Himmel haben Nester; aber des Menschen Sohn hat nicht, da er sein Haupt hin lege. |
| Haitian Creole | Jezi reponn li: Chat mawon gen twou yo, zwezo nan syèl la gen nich yo tou. Men, mwen menm, Moun Bondye voye nan lachè a, mwen pa gen kote pou m' poze tèt mwen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Yesus menjawab, "Serigala punya liang, dan burung punya sarang, tetapi Anak Manusia tidak punya tempat berbaring." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka kata Yesus kepadanya, "Bagi serigala ada lubangnya, dan bagi segala burung pun ada sarangnya, tetapi Anak manusia tiada bertempat hendak membaringkan kepala-Nya." |
| Manx Gaelic | As dooyrt Yeesey rish, Ta tuill ec ny shynnee, as idd ec eeanlee yn aer, agh ec Mac yn dooimley cha vel boayl, ayn dy chur e chione fo. |
| Maori | Na ko te meatanga a Ihu ki a ia, He rua o nga pokiha, he kohanga o nga manu o te rangi; tena ko te Tama a te tangata hore ona wahi e takoto ai tona matenga. |
| Norwegian | Og Jesus sa til ham: Revene har huler, og himmelens fugler reder; men Menneskesønnen har ikke det han kan helle sitt hode til. |
| Portuguese | Respondeu-lhe Jesus: As raposas têm covis, e as aves do céu têm ninhos; mas o Filho do homem não tem onde reclinar a cabeça. |
| Rumanian | Isus i -a rqspuns: ,,Vulpile au vizuini, wi pqsqrile cerului au cuiburi; dar Fiul omului n`are unde-Wi odihni capul.`` |
| Shuar | Tutai Jesus Tímiayi "Kujanchmasha ni Wáarin takaktsuk. Chinkisha pasunken takaktsuk. Tura Wi Yusa Uchiríntiatan tepesan ayampratniur atsawai." |
| Swahili | Yesu akasema, "Mbweha wana mapango, na ndege wana viota; lakini Mwana wa Mtu hana mahali pa kupumzikia." |
| Swedish | Då svarade Jesus honom: "Rävarna hava kulor, och himmelens fåglar hava nästen; men Människosonen har ingen plats där han kan vila sitt huvud." |
| Uma | Yesus mpotompoi' -i, na'uli': "Bangko' ria pulo'u-ra, pai' danci ria peta-ra, aga Aku' Ana' Manusia' uma-kuna ria tomi-ku kupoturui." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nowhere": nowheres. (additional references) | |
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"Nowhere" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gowhari, naewhere, newhere, nonhero, nosher, noshery, nowehere, nowere, nowheres, Nowshera. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nowhere" (pronounced nō"we'r or nō"hwe'r) |
| 3 | -w e' r | anywhere, cookware, Delftware, dinnerware, earthenware, elsewhere, everywhere, eyewear, flatware, footwear, giftware, glassware, hardware, kitchenware, knitwear, neckwear, outerwear, shareware, silverware, sleepwear, software, somewhere, sportswear, stoneware, swimwear, tableware, underwear, vaporware. |
| 3 | -w e' r | anywhere, cookware, Delftware, dinnerware, earthenware, elsewhere, everywhere, eyewear, flatware, footwear, giftware, glassware, hardware, kitchenware, knitwear, neckwear, outerwear, shareware, silverware, sleepwear, software, somewhere, sportswear, stoneware, swimwear, tableware, underwear, vaporware. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: whereon. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-n-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: erenow, hereon. | |
-2 letters: heron, hewer, honer, newer, owner, renew, rewon, rowen, wheen, where, whore. | |
-3 letters: enow, erne, ewer, here, hern, hero, hewn, hoer, hone, horn, howe, ween, weer, were, whee, when, wore, worn, wren. | |
-4 letters: eon, ere, ern, ewe, hen, her, hew, hoe, hon, how, nee, new, noh, nor, now, one, ore, owe, own. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-n-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: nowheres. | |
+2 letters: homeowner, whereinto, whereunto, whereupon. | |
+3 letters: homeowners, horsewomen, whensoever. | |
+4 letters: downhearted, fisherwomen, hereinbelow, netherworld, northwester, washerwomen, weatherworn, whoremonger, workbenches, wrongheaded. | |
+5 letters: henceforward, netherworlds, northwestern, northwesters, overweighing, overwhelming, southwestern, warehouseman, warehousemen, whencesoever, whoremongers, worthinesses. | |
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