nowheres

[ noh-hwairz, -wairz ]

adverb

, Nonstandard.

1. nowhere.

Word History and Origins

Origin of nowheres¹

nowhere, -s ¹

Example Sentences

The Purple Fiddle, a music venue this newspaper once described as “a magical oasis in a desert of nowheres,” is also a big draw.

From Washington Post

The air has been sucked out of all these claustrophobic nowheres.

From Los Angeles Times

Highway 19 and 129, which despite having two numbers was really just a back road through a high pass between wooded nowheres.

From Literature

There have been many attempts to divide the respective Leave and Remain tribes since the referendum – into somewheres and nowheres, populists and globalists, gammons and snowflakes.

From The Guardian

“She told me Matt wanted her to pick him up,” Mitchell said, but that she had resisted their overtures, telling them “I never leave nowheres without Lyle, never.”

From The Guardian