someplace

English

Etymology

some +‎ place

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmˌpleɪs/

• Audio (US)

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Adverb

someplace (not comparable)

1. (informal, chiefly US) Somewhere.

   We can't find the damned thing, but it must be someplace.

Derived terms

• someplace else

Noun

someplace (plural someplaces)

1. An unspecified location.
   • 1993, Robert Werman, Notes from a Sealed Room: An Israeli View of the Gulf War, →ISBN, page xvii:

     And there is a reason for going to Israel: to find a someplace.

   • 2007, Tom Moylan, Raffaella Baccolini, Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming, →ISBN, page 322:

     Thus, "placing readers at the forefront of utopian studies will [...] help us to understand more fully and accurately what the noplaces of Utopia have done, do, and will do to the someplaces of our world" (Roemer 154).

   • 2013, Kate Bernheimer, xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, →ISBN:

     To get here you drive through the series of pocketed communities that fray the outskirts of these usual someplaces, someplaces that are like industrial cities that were once more industrious cities.

   • 2014, Tom Nigg, The Last of an Extinct Race, →ISBN, page 39:

     Find a someplace as far away as possible from the flying monster and its helpers.

   • 2018, Richard Spuler, Places:

     And the someplace else was of little concern to the traveling salesman as well, because for him everywhere was someplace else and this was just another stop between a someplace and an elsewhere.

Anagrams

• complease