somewhere

Etymology

some + where

adv

1. In an uncertain or unspecified location.
   I must have left my glasses somewhere.
   I've hidden candy somewhere in this room.
2. To an uncertain or unspecified location.
   He plans to go somewhere warm for his vacation.
   I have to go somewhere at lunch. Can I meet you at 2?
3. At some unspecified point.
   I don't remember the exact number, but it was somewhere between 200 and 300.

noun

1. Unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.
   We have come from somewhere and we are going somewhere, but because life is an unending circle, we are again going to come from a somewhere, and we are again going to go to a somewhere, and this will go on, and on, and on. 1986, Joel S. Goldsmith, A Parenthesis in Eternity: Living the Mystical Life, page 100
   A courting owl hoots in the somewheres of the night and another answers its call further off. 2008, Bill Watkins, The Once and Future Celt, page 283
   […] and it transports the person to a somewhere, a somewhere that the music dictates. 2012, Thomas M. Kitts, Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty, page 6
   This is essentialised place: a somewhere that is nowhere and yet everywhere. November 1, 2015, Clare Brennan, “The Oresteia review – strong performances at odds with the setting”, in The Observer