anyplace

[ en-ee-pleys ]

adverb

1. anywhere.

anyplace

/ ˈɛnɪˌpleɪs /

adverb

1. informal.
   in, at, or to any unspecified place

Spelling 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of anyplace¹

First recorded in 1915–20; any + place

Example Sentences

The fact we have mailboxes on corners, and get letters delivered anyplace in the world, is frankly a miraculous concept.

From Time

That ‘anyplace past Concord’ faces the exact same set of issues.

From The Daily Beast

The FDA said anyplace where 50 percent of square footage was devoted to preparing and serving food.

From The Daily Beast

There is no possible arrangement of coalitions other than the ones that exist now – because nobody has anyplace to go.

From The Daily Beast

But little is ideal in America or anyplace else, and heroism on the cheap is a defining aspect of our commercial culture.

From The Daily Beast

Gimmicks belong almost anyplace except a Republican presidential primary.

From The Daily Beast

And there never was a nicer school anyplace than Lakeview Hall.

From Project Gutenberg

Did you know whether he had any friends from school or anyplace come to visit him, people his own age?

From Project Gutenberg

Did you observe any blood on the portion of his body in the neck area or anyplace in the front of his body?

From Project Gutenberg

Did they scan sufficiently to identify anything, to be alerted by anything in any window, on the roof, or anyplace else?

From Project Gutenberg

Also that there are a lot of wooden nickels Upstairs—in orbit, on the Moon, anyplace.

From Project Gutenberg