anyplace

[ en-ee-pleys ]

/ ˈɛn iˌpleɪs /

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Origin of anyplace

First recorded in 1915–20; any + place

usage note for anyplace

The adverb anyplace is most often written as one word: Anyplace you look there are ruins. It occurs mainly in informal speech and only occasionally in writing. Anywhere is by far the more common form in formal speech and edited writing. The same holds true, respectively, of the adverbial pairs everyplace and everywhere; noplace and nowhere; and someplace and somewhere. The two-word noun phrases any place, every place, no place, and some place occur, however, in all contexts: We can build the house in any place we choose. There's no place like home.

Words nearby anyplace

any number of, any old, anyon, anyone, anyone's guess, anyplace, Any port in a storm, anyroad, anything, anything but, anything goes

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How to use anyplace in a sentence

The fact we have mailboxes on corners, and get letters delivered anyplace in the world, is frankly a miraculous concept.
Roger Ferguson, CEO of TIAA, on Why You Shouldn’t Watch the Wild Stock Market All Day|Eben Shapiro|October 11, 2020|Time
That ‘anyplace past Concord’ faces the exact same set of issues.
New Hampshire Says ‘No’ to Interloper Scott Brown|David Freedlander|November 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The FDA said anyplace where 50 percent of square footage was devoted to preparing and serving food.
Up to a Point: In Defense of Lobbyists|P. J. O’Rourke|October 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There is no possible arrangement of coalitions other than the ones that exist now – because nobody has anyplace to go.
The Book Club is Updated|Noah Kristula-Green|July 25, 2012|DAILY BEAST

But little is ideal in America or anyplace else, and heroism on the cheap is a defining aspect of our commercial culture.
MLK Statue Shows America’s Bad Side|Stanley Crouch|August 30, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Gimmicks belong almost anyplace except a Republican presidential primary.
Meghan McCain's 7 Tips for Republican Hopefuls|Meghan McCain|June 20, 2011|DAILY BEAST
And there never was a nicer school anyplace than Lakeview Hall.
Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border|Annie Roe Carr
Did you know whether he had any friends from school or anyplace come to visit him, people his own age?
Warren Commission (8 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Did you observe any blood on the portion of his body in the neck area or anyplace in the front of his body?
Warren Commission (2 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Did they scan sufficiently to identify anything, to be alerted by anything in any window, on the roof, or anyplace else?
Warren Commission (2 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Also that there are a lot of wooden nickels Upstairs—in orbit, on the Moon, anyplace.
The Planet Strappers|Raymond Zinke Gallun

British Dictionary definitions for anyplace

anyplace

/ (ˈɛnɪˌpleɪs) /

adverb

US and Canadian informal in, at, or to any unspecified place

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