Elsewhere
[els'weə;'elsweə]
Definition
(adv.) in or to another place; 'he went elsewhere'; 'look elsewhere for the answer'.
Typist: Melville--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In any other place; as, these trees are not to be found elsewhere.
(adv.) In some other place; in other places, indefinitely; as, it is reported in town and elsewhere.
Typed by Billie
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. [1]. Many other places.[2]. In some other place.[3]. In other places.
Typist: Nola
Examples
- These discoveries, added to the long observed fact of coal oil floating on streams in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, led to the search for its natural source. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- She was free of it all, she could seek a new union elsewhere. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A man who is doing well elsewhere wouldn't bide here two or three weeks for nothing, said Fairway. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But the old teachers are all dead, or gone elsewhere; and no enlightenment is to be hoped for from that quarter. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- At these tables the _élite_ of the company were to be entertained, strict rules of equality not being more in fashion at Briarfield than elsewhere. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This war was more marked in England than elsewhere, because there more of the new machines were first introduced, and the number of labourers in those fields was the greatest. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Come, Watson, I think that we have more important work elsewhere. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I am not likely to follow new lights, though there are plenty of them here as elsewhere. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But what will happen elsewhere? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Above the figure was nothing that could be mapped elsewhere than on a celestial globe. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But, my dear sister, can I be happy, even supposing the best, in accepting a man whose sisters and friends are all wishing him to marry elsewhere? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Anything to equal the determined reticence of Mr. Jaggers under that roof I never saw elsewhere, even in him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I would abandon it, and live otherwise and elsewhere. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Feathered species sojourned here in hiding which would have created wonder if found elsewhere. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was Saturday night, and most of the people belonging to the place where we were going were drinking elsewhere. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But no; I knew the fire of that hearth burned before its Lares no more--it went out long ago, and the household gods had been carried elsewhere. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- For Mr Mortimer Lightwood had dined there two or three times, and she had met him elsewhere, and he had shown her some attention. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Now gangs of such saws may be found in America and elsewhere, and circular saws have also been added. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It would be an impertinence elsewhere, but it is not so here, to ask your name and condition? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She must be confident here, for God knows, she felt rejected and deficient enough elsewhere. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It may be necessary to have dykes on portions of the seashore; they may be superfluous elsewhere. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Together with the courage and conduct, said Brian de Bois-Guilbert, by which they distinguished themselves at Hastings and elsewhere. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Elsewhere upon fertile plains and in more open country there were probably already much larger assemblies of homes than in those mountain valleys. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Moquin-Tandon gives a list of plants which, when growing near the sea-shore, have their leaves in some degree fleshy, though not elsewhere fleshy. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Because, my dear Watson, I had the strongest possible reason for wishing certain people to think that I was there when I was really elsewhere. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- To avoid the necessity of having to give orders direct, I established my headquarters near his, unless there were reasons for locating them elsewhere. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Such has been the case elsewhere. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I was engaged elsewhere. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The newsboys are smart there, just as they are elsewhere. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If only that shelter had not already offered itself elsewhere! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Typist: Nola