otherwhere

English

Etymology

From other +‎ where. Compare German anderswo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʌðə(ɹ)wɛː(ɹ)/

Adverb

otherwhere (not comparable)

1. (now regional) Synonym of somewhere else: elsewhere, in or to some other place. [from 14th c.]
   • 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.

   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, “[Prelude to chapter 1]”, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 4:

     Come, Adrian. I think we should be otherwhere.