anyplace

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adverb

Origin of anyplace

First recorded in 1915–20; any + place

Usage note

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.

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Related Words for anyplace

anywhere, everywhere, wherever

Examples from the Web for anyplace

Contemporary Examples of anyplace

That ‘anyplace past Concord’ faces the exact same set of issues.
New Hampshire Says ‘No’ to Interloper Scott Brown
David Freedlander
November 5, 2014
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
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
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
The city has more than 140,000 hotel rooms—more than anyplace in the world—with an average daily rate of $114 a night.
Obama Craps Out in Las Vegas
Sally Denton
February 13, 2009

Historical Examples of anyplace

"Three things Kentucky makes better than anyplace else," said Lincoln.
Shaman
Robert Shea
Question is, if we're there, or anyplace else for that matter, why are we?
The Enormous Room
Horace Leonard Gold
No one can take him anyplace he doesn't want to go, just as no one can hurt him in any way.
Black Eyes and the Daily Grind
Milton Lesser
But, if they ever wanted to get anyplace in the Service, they damned well better.
The Planet with No Nightmare
Jim Harmon
It twisted along thru the woods without seemin to come out much of anyplace.
"Same old Bill, eh Mable!"
Edward Streeter

British Dictionary definitions for anyplace

anyplace

adverb

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

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Word Origin and History for anyplace

1911, from any + place.