someplace

[suhm-pleys]

adverb

1. somewhere.

someplace

/ ˈsʌmˌpleɪs /

adverb

1. informal,  in, at, or to some unspecified place or region

Spelling Note

See anyplace.

Word History and Origins

Origin of someplace¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; some, place

Example Sentences

The subject matter is worthy of serious dramatic interrogation, and there’s a good movie in here someplace.

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“Sometimes in a big refinery fire like this, it goes straight up. But then the smoke comes down in other areas. And that’s a lot of pollution that’s going someplace.”

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It’d be one thing if I had started on some little indie someplace with some new director or whatever.

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If success means leaving someplace better than you found it, Kershaw triumphed spectacularly.

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Let’s take the president’s complaint that he read “someplace” that the networks “were 97% against me.”

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Related Words

• around 
• elsewhere 
• here and there