Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adverb Nonstandard.
adverb
- in, at, or to any place.
- to any extent; to some degree: Does my answer come anywhere near the right one?
noun
- any place or direction: They knew the attack could come from anywhere.
- get anywhere, to achieve success: You’ll never get anywhere with that attitude!
adverb
- US a nonstandard word for anywhere
adverb
- in, at, or to any place
- get anywhere to be successfulit took three years before he got anywhere
- anywhere from any quantity, time, degree, etc, above a specified limithe could be anywhere from 40 to 50 years old
late 14c., from any + where. Earlier words in this sense were owhere, oughwhere, aywhere, literally “aught where” (see aught (1)).