otherwhere

English

Etymology

From other +‎ where. Compare German anderswo.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʌðə(ɹ)wɛː(ɹ)/

Adverb

otherwhere (not comparable)

(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. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  And fared like a furious wyld Beare,
  Whose whelpes are stolne away, she being otherwhere.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 6:
  ‘Come, Adrian. I think we should be otherwhere.’

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