someplace

adv, noun — 2 senses

someplace

adv

/ˈsʌmˌpleɪs/

Etymology From some + place.

1

US, Informal Somewhere.

  • We can't find the damned thing, but it must be someplace.
Derived terms
someplace else

someplace

noun

Etymology From some + place.

1

An unspecified location.

  • And there is a reason for going to Israel: to find a someplace.1993, Robert Werman, Notes from a Sealed Room: An Israeli View of the Gulf War, →ISBN, page xvii:
  • 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).2007, Tom Moylan, Raffaella Baccolini, Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming, →ISBN, page 322:
3 more examples
  • 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.2013, Kate Bernheimer, xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, →ISBN:
  • Find a someplace as far away as possible from the flying monster and its helpers.2014, Tom Nigg, The Last of an Extinct Race, →ISBN, page 39:
  • 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.2018, Richard Spuler, Places:

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