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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
anyhow
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Anyhow, we have plenty of time to plan ahead.
▪ Well, that's what Jeb told me anyhow.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But anyhow it was an argument over the spoils.
▪ But anyhow, we have a lot of stuff in there in the way of staples.
▪ She didn't even know what he did to earn so much money, anyhow!
▪ What type of person am I, anyhow?
▪ What you say is all rubbish anyhow.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anyhow

Anyhow \A"ny*how`\, adv. In any way or manner whatever; at any rate; in any event.

Anyhow, it must be acknowledged to be not a simple selforiginated error.
--J. H. Newman.

Anyhow, the languages of the two nations were closely allied.
--E. A. Freeman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
anyhow

1740, from any + how (adv.). Unlike the cases of most other any + (interrogative) compounds, there is no record of it in Old or Middle English. Emphatic form any old how is recorded from 1900, American English.

Wiktionary
anyhow

adv. 1 (context manner English) In any way or manner whatever. 2 (context conjunctive English) in any case. Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement.

WordNet
anyhow

  1. adv. used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement; "Anyhow, he is dead now"; "I think they're asleep; anyhow, they're quiet"; "I don't know what happened to it; anyway, it's gone"; "anyway, there is another factor to consider"; "I don't know how it started; in any case, there was a brief scuffle"; "in any event, the government faced a serious protest"; "but at any rate he got a knighthood for it" [syn: anyway, in any case, at any rate, in any event]

  2. in any way whatsoever; "they came anyhow they could"; "get it done anyway you can" [syn: anyway]

Usage examples of "anyhow".

Anyhow, before we were halfway to the center of the anomaly, the stars went out.

But Blinky did not stop to read the name--he did not know the meaning anyhow.

Anyhow the malevolence of the Culex fasciatus would justify the suspicion that some wicked human soul had been compressed into that wailing speck of a body.

Anyhow, the life of an escapee and permanent fugitive, visible or not, held no allure.

On occasion, when the bank balance was doing a dive, he had furnished Gather or Durkin or Panzer or Keems as a bodyguard at a hundred percent mark-up, but now they were all fighting Germans or Japs, and anyhow, we had just deposited a five-figure check from a certain client.

But what he did find was more bar-bars, or anyhow traces of them, their buried bones mixed in with those peculiar knobkerries and assegais they favour in the wild.

That, Loding had said, had gone out with bustles, and Latchetts had never had a butler, anyhow.

Captain Sharpe, that the Brigade Loup can fight any man, anywhere, anyhow.

Anyhow, thanks to our utterly weightless condition, we may achieve Lume 0.

Why did Nounou let the children leave their croquet mallets lying all anyhow about the lawn?

Anyhow, I deemed it prudent not to enter the oilery with them that night, but slept outside in a stable.

I was passing this way anyhow, he asked me to stop by and deliver a message to Agachak, the Hierarch of Rak Urga.

Anyhow, when Lena gave a rather gloomy account of the existing state of things in the Suffragette World, Waldo was not merely sympathetic but ready with a practical suggestion.

Anyhow three tinkler ruffians of the Baillie clan were on the trail, and had followed Bauldy to his camp for the night.

Anyhow, the real crafty advantage of sending a volunteer, is that, if you should not return, as is confidently expected, the military will probably send a fully-fledged expeditionary force to Tsuris, even declare war as they sincerely want to.