elsewhere

Synonym of somewhere else: a place other than here.

Adverb

  1. Synonym of somewhere else: in, at, or to some other place.
    • If you won’t serve us, we’ll go elsewhere.
    • These particular trees are not to be found elsewhere.
    • Oh, had we some bright little isle of our own, / In a blue summer ocean far off and alone; / [...] / Where simply to feel that we breathe, that we live, / Is worth the best joys that life elsewhere can give. - [1850?],...

    Synonyms: somewhere else

Origin

From Middle English elswher, from Old English elles hwǣr and elles hwerġen (“elsewhere”); corresponding with else + where. Cognate with Old High German alleswār (“elsewhere”), whence Middle High German alleswā, alswā (“elsewhere”).

Related

elsewise elsehow elseward elsewhat elsewhen elsewhence elsewhither elsewho elsewhom

Derived

elsewhereness hereinelsewhere take one's business elsewhere take one's custom elsewhere

Noun

  1. Synonym of somewhere else: a place other than here.
    • We are back on the Ligurian coast, from which vertigos push human beings toward all kinds of elsewheres. - 2000, Angela M Jeannet, Under the radiant sun and the crescent moon: Italo Calvino's storytelling:

    Synonyms: somewhere else

Forms

elsewheres