Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - somewhere
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Somewhere
somewhere
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. You use somewhere to refer to a place without saying exactly where you mean. I’ve got a feeling I’ve seen him before somewhere... I’m not going home yet. I have to go somewhere else first... ‘Perhaps we can talk somewhere privately,’ said Kesler... Somewhere in Ian’s room were some of the letters that she had sent him... I needed somewhere to live in London. ADV: ADV after v, ADV with be, oft ADV cl/group, from ADV 2. You use somewhere when giving an approximate amount, number, or time. Caray is somewhere between 73 and 80 years of age... The W.H.O. safety standard for ozone levels is somewhere about a hundred... ADV: ADV prep 3. If you say that you are getting somewhere, you mean that you are making progress towards achieving something. At last they were agreeing, at last they were getting somewhere... PHRASE: V inflects
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I. adverb Date: 13th century 1. in, at, from, or to a place unknown or unspecified mentions it ~ 2. to a place symbolizing positive accomplishment or progress now we're getting ~ 3. in the vicinity of ; approximately ~ about nine o'clock II. noun Date: 1647 an undetermined or unnamed place ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
adv. & pron. --adv. in or to some place. --pron. some unspecified place. Phrases and idioms get somewhere colloq. achieve success. somewhere about approximately. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. где-то, где-нибудь; куда-то, куда-нибудь somewhere else —- где-то в другом месте he mentions it lives somewhere in the neighbourhood —- он живет где-то по соседству 2. около, приблизительно somewhere about two months —- около двух месяцев she is somewhere in her fifties —- ей пятьдесят с хвостиком 3. куда нужно, в нужном направлении now we are getting somewhere —- теперь мы наконец сдвинулись с места Id: I'll see you somewhere first —- да я скорее удавлюсь! ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
4.
adv. где-то, где-нибудь; куда-то, куда-нибудь; somewhere else - где-то в другом месте ...Англо-русский словарь
5.
~ adv (not usually in questions or negatives) 1 in or to a place, but you do not say or know exactly where (My car keys are around here somewhere. | somewhere to live/to sleep etc) (There must be somewhere to eat cheaply in this town. | somewhere safe/different etc) (Is there somewhere safe where I can leave my bike? | somewhere else) (Go and play somewhere else - I'm trying to work. | or somewhere (=or a similar place)) (We could hold the meal at Giorgio's or somewhere.) (- see place1) 2 somewhere around/between etc a little more or a little less than a particular number or amount; approximately (We now have somewhere in the region of 500 firefighters in this area alone.) 3 be getting somewhere to be making progress (Well, that's a problem solved! At last I feel we're getting somewhere.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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