anywheres

[en-ee-hwairz, -wairz]

adverb

Nonstandard.

1. anywhere.

anywheres

/ ˈɛnɪˌwɛəz /

adverb

1. a nonstandard word for anywhere

Word History and Origins

Origin of anywheres¹

First recorded in 1765–75; anywhere + -s ¹

Example Sentences

In her essay on Obama and her family, Forna mentions a disparaging term “anywheres,” meant to describe international professionals, “people whose sense of self is not rooted in a single place or readymade local identity.”

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“But they don’t go anywheres unless they really have to.”

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These gilded ones thought of themselves as “anywheres” in a fragmenting world.

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They are the cosmopolitans and the rooted, or as David Goodhart put it in his 2017 book “The Road to Somewhere,” the “somewheres” and the “anywheres.”

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Mark Twain’s words sounded fresh to me every evening: “Not a sound anywheres — perfectly still — just like the whole world was asleep, only sometimes the bullfrogs a-cluttering, maybe.”

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