elsewhere

[ els-hwair, -wair ]

/ ˈɛlsˌʰwɛər, -ˌwɛər /

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adverb

somewhere else; in or to some other place: You will have to look elsewhere for an answer.

Nearby words

elsass, elsass-lothringen, else, elsene, elsevier, elsewhere, elsewhither, elsewise, elsie, elsinore, elspeth

Origin of elsewhere

before 900; Middle English elleswher, Old English elles hwǣr. See else, where

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Examples from the Web for elsewhere

Elsewhere, courts throughout the country have placed limits on speech this year.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
To carry his voice forward, onto the streets of New York and D.C. and Chicago and elsewhere.
The Day I Used Eric Garner’s Voice|Joshua DuBois|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Elsewhere on the Internet, and often, Turkers butt heads over which tools work best, or what nation they hail from.
Amazon’s Turkers Kick Off the First Crowdsourced Labor Guild|Kevin Zawacki|December 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A sizable number of Asian Americans feel that affirmative action, in college admissions or elsewhere, has hurt them personally.
Why Harvard's Asians Are Invisible|Tim Mak|November 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The U.N. special representative has called for local ceasefires in Aleppo and elsewhere to start building a broader peace.
Local Truces Are Syria’s Sad Little Pieces of Peace|Joshua Hersh|November 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The King looked round with a curious eye, and elsewhere, before departing.
The Mesmerist's Victim|Alexandre Dumas
We had bathed together a hundred times in London and elsewhere.
Hilda Wade|Grant Allen
But the pride of birth and blood is common to all nations, perhaps less so in England than elsewhere.
The Mother of Parliaments|Harry Graham
The Beltane customs seem to have been the same as elsewhere.
Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.|Sir James George Frazer
In England, as elsewhere, the growth of the towns was one of the most marked features of the twelfth century.
The Influence and Development of English Gilds|Francis Aiden Hibbert

British Dictionary definitions for elsewhere

elsewhere

/ (ˌɛlsˈwɛə) /

adverb

in or to another place; somewhere else

Word Origin for elsewhere

Old English elles hwǣr; see else, where

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Word Origin and History for elsewhere

elsewhere

c.1400, elswher, from Old English elles hwær (see else + where).

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