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Definition of otherwhere in English:

otherwhere

adverb

archaic, literary

  • Elsewhere.

    ‘I think we should be otherwhere’
    • ‘those vast monastic houses which still exist in the Yorkshire valleys, and otherwhere’
    • ‘At the novel's end, the two escape into the ‘otherwhere’ from which Alec, the ‘rescuer,’ has emerged.’

Pronunciation

otherwhere

/ˈəT͟Hərˌ(h)wer/ /ˈəðərˌ(h)wɛr/

pronoun

archaic, literary

  • Another place, especially one that is imaginary.

    • ‘I have a door that opens, unbe­known to my fellow passengers, to a secret other­where’

Pronunciation

otherwhere

/ˈəT͟Hərˌ(h)wer/ /ˈəðərˌ(h)wɛr/