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- pronunciation:
- no
weIr
- parts of speech:
- adverb, noun
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adverb |
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If there is nowhere to play ball, it means that there is no place to play ball. If you went nowhere yesterday, then you stayed home. You didn't go to any place.
My dad says he doesn't like to drive in the city because there's nowhere to park.Jamal and his sister looked all over their house but their cat seemed to be nowhere. Finally, they heard a meow coming from the cupboard in the bathroom.- antonyms:
- everywhere
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If someone says "I got nowhere," it means they didn't make any progress at all or they didn't get to the place where they wanted to go.
All of my hard work on that math problem got me nowhere because I was actually doing it wrong.We're going to get nowhere if we keep arguing like this.- antonyms:
- somewhere
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noun |
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When we say that something comes out of nowhere, we mean it just appears in a surprising way as if by magic or as if it had never existed before.
While we were driving, a deer appeared in the road out of nowhere. My mom stopped the car just in time, but it really surprised us. |
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When we say that a house is in the middle of nowhere, we mean that the house is in a place that is far away from anything else, or is in a place that very few people know about.
Some people say my town is in the middle of nowhere. That's because we are not near any big city. |
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