NOWHERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nowhere mean? 

• NOWHERE (noun)
  The noun NOWHERE has 1 sense:

1. an insignificant place

  Familiarity information: NOWHERE used as a noun is very rare.

• NOWHERE (adverb)
  The adverb NOWHERE has 1 sense:

1. not anywhere; in or at or to no place

  Familiarity information: NOWHERE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOWHERE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An insignificant place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

he came out of nowhere

Hypernyms ("nowhere" is a kind of...):

obscurity (an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known)

• NOWHERE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not anywhere; in or at or to no place

Context example:

I am going nowhere

 Context examples 

The pound and a half of sun-dried salmon, which was his ration for each day, seemed to go nowhere.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I had long had the impression that since I could nowhere find you, you must be dead.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Because I knew it was nowhere else.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She sought her children, but they were nowhere to be found.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Nowhere was Jupiter's secular variation as large as at the planet's Great Blue Spot, an intense patch of magnetic field near Jupiter's equator.

(NASA's Juno Finds Changes in Jupiter's Magnetic Field, NASA)

Nowhere was there any trace of Henry Jekyll, dead or alive.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I was struck a crushing, stunning blow, nowhere in particular and yet everywhere.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

For five days he toiled on at "Overdue," going nowhere, seeing nobody, and eating meagrely.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Even the most advanced robots come nowhere near the grasping ability of animals when dealing with objects of varying shapes, sizes and textures.

(Researchers study birds to improve how robots land, National Science Foundation)