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English
Etymology
From other + where. Compare German anderswo.
Pronunciation
Adverb
otherwhere (not comparable)
- (now regional) Synonym of somewhere else: elsewhere, in or to some other place.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. , part II (books IV–VI), London: [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 499:And fared like a furious wyld Beare,
Whoſe whelpes are ſtolne away, ſhe being otherwhere.