anywheres

1. 1
   adverbdialectalUS

   In, at, or to any place whatsoever.

   He swore he'd looked anywheres a man could think to look.

   You won't find better cooking anywheres around these parts.

   Similaranyplace

   Oppositenowhere

   Note

   A vernacular American form with an extra -s, at home in dialect and slang rather than in standard prose. It means exactly what anywhere means, so all its work is done by voice: it marks a speaker as regional or plain-spoken. Use it in dialogue or deliberately folksy writing. In an essay or report it reads as a mistake. The same spelling also serves as the noun plural, a separate use.

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   noun

   Plural of anywhere.

   The drifter spoke fondly of all the nameless anywheres he had passed through.

   Her travel diary was a catalog of forgettable anywheres along the highway.

   Note

   Behind this plural stands an unexpected noun: an anywhere can be a person without strong ties to any particular place, a cosmopolite. The plural is formed regularly, so anywheres can name a whole class of such rootless people. It can also name a set of interchangeable places, drawing on the pronoun's sense of "any location". Context decides which is meant.

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