nowhere

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nowhere (not comparable)

1. In no place.

   Nowhere did the rules say anything about popcorn.

2. To no place.

   We sat in traffic, going nowhere.

nowhere (not comparable)

1. Unimportant; unworthy of notice.
   • 1872, “Reviews of Postal Publications”, in The Stamp-Collector's Magazine, volume 10, page 110:

     As a foreign stamp gazette it is nowhere. An article on Stamp Collecting, by J. E. Gray, “reprinted from one of his books,” and a catalogue of stamps constitute its sole attraction. We are surprised to find such sounding pretentions so poorly supported.

   • 2008, Cricket Sawyer, Lavender Lust, →ISBN, page 180:

     Elinore was such a bitch, such a nowhere person.

   • 2012, Nicholas Borelli, Let No Man Be My Albatross, →ISBN, page 247:

     He always allowed them to motivate him to a level of intensity to do better, rather than remain in a nowhere life in a nowhere place like Harlem.

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nowhere (plural nowheres)

1. No particular place, noplace.

   They went on a cruise to nowhere.

   • 1912, Charles Inge, “Nemesis or Bad Luck?”, in The Windsor magazine, volume 36, page 95:

     While they paced the platform of the station, they reviewed the career of misdemeanours—Nutley, Chiddiugstone, Midhurst, Penn, and many nowheres, and now Aylesbury.

   • 1996 Oct, Indianapolis Monthly, volume 20, number 2, page 115:

     Oh, not the middle of nowhere like the rest of Indiana, but a nowhere so flat and ugly you want to lie down in a ditch and never get up again.

   • 2005, Dave Finkelstein; Jack London, Philip Caputo, Greater Nowheres: Wanderings Across the Outback, page xxiv:

     But some Nowheres do still exist and are there to be found by any genuinely free spirit willing to hook a caravan behind his four-wheel-drive and dream, say, of finding that isolated campsite beside an as yet undiscovered waterhole

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