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English
Etymology
From any + where.
Pronunciation
Adverb
anywhere (not comparable)
- In or at any location.
I don't know where I left my keys. They could be anywhere.
I'd rather be anywhere else.
For many 'home' is an affectation when used anywhere that 'house' would be appropriate, as in 'Home for Sale'.
- To (in the direction of) any location.
Anywhere you go in France, there will be bread and wine with dinner.
I'm staying home today. I'm not going anywhere.
Are you going anywhere special this weekend?
Derived terms
Translations
in or at any location
- Belarusian: абы-дзе́ (aby-dzjé), дзе-не́будзь (dzje-njébudzʹ)
- Bulgarian: навсякъде (bg) (navsjakǎde), където и да е (kǎdeto i da e)
- Catalan: onsevulga (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 任何地方 (rènhé dìfāng)
- Czech: kdekoliv (cs)
- Danish: hvorsomhelst
- Dutch: overal (nl), eender waar
- Esperanto: ie ajn
- Finnish: missä tahansa, missään (fi)
- French: n’importe où (fr), où que ce soit, nulle part (fr) ((in a negative sentence)
- Galician: xalundes, algures
- Georgian: ნებისმიერ ადგილას (nebismier adgilas), ნებისმიერ ადგილზე (nebismier adgilze), ყველგან (ka) (q̇velgan), სადაც არ უნდა იყოს (sadac ar unda iq̇os), ნებისმიერგან (nebismiergan) (colloquial)
- German: überall (de), irgendwo (de)
- Gothic: 𐍈𐌰𐍂𐌿𐌷 (ƕaruh)
- Greek: οπουδήποτε (el) (opoudípote), πουθενά (el) (pouthená)
- Hungarian: bárhol (hu), akárhol (hu)
- Ido: irgaloke (io), irgube (io)
- Irish: in aon bhall, in aon áit, in áit ar bith
- Italian: ovunque (it), dappertutto (it)
- Japanese: どこでも (dokodemo)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 어디에도 (eodiedo)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ھەرچی شوێن (herçî şwên), ھەرشوێن (herişwên)
- Latin: uspiam, usquam (la)
- Malay:
- Jawi: مان٢
- Rumi: mana-mana (ms)
- Marathi: कुठेही (kuṭhehī), कुठे पण (kuṭhe paṇ)
- Mirandese: adondequiera
- Ngazidja Comorian: pvahanu (in a negative sentence)
- Norwegian: hvor som helst
- Bokmål: hvorenn, hvor som helst
- Old English: āhwǣr
- Plautdietsch: irjentwua
- Polish: gdziekolwiek (pl), byle gdzie, gdzie bądź
- Portuguese: em qualquer lugar
- Romanian: oriunde (ro)
- Russian: где-ли́бо (ru) (gde-líbo) (somewhere, anywhere), где-нибу́дь (ru) (gde-nibúdʹ) (somewhere, anywhere), где уго́дно (gde ugódno)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: било где, било гдје
- Latin: bilo gde, bilo gdje
- Spanish: en cualquier parte, dondequiera (es)
- Swedish: var som helst, varsomhelst, någonstans (sv) (inte någonstans = not anywhere, nowhere)
- Telugu: ఎక్కడైనా (te) (ekkaḍainā)
- Ukrainian: де завго́дно (de zavhódno), де-не́будь (de-nébudʹ), скрізь (skrizʹ)
- Welsh: yn unrhyw le, yn unlle (in negative contexts)
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Pronoun
anywhere
- Any location or an unknown location.
Anywhere is better than here!
Noun
anywhere (plural anywheres)
- A person without strong cultural or social ties to a specific place; a cosmopolite.
- Synonym: cosmopolite
- Antonym: somewhere