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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
someplace
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
go
▪ I hoped we could go someplace.
▪ He responded that he was very excited and knew he was going someplace special.
▪ But you're going someplace just as good.
▪ Madden brought Jack the consensus sentiment from half a dozen underworld powerhouses: Go someplace else, Jack.
▪ When the party ends, how'd you like to go someplace for a drink?
▪ Go someplace else and be crazy.
▪ The traffic was not heavy, but it was still a surprise to see how many people were going someplace.
▪ My life started going someplace, someplace weird and good.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A lot of people who use the guide are looking for someplace to eat.
▪ I know my glasses must be around here someplace.
▪ I want to go someplace warm on vacation.
▪ She lives someplace up near Portland, and I haven't seen her for years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All we know for certain is they come from someplace white.
▪ But you're going someplace just as good.
▪ He's a professor of art someplace.
▪ He responded that he was very excited and knew he was going someplace special.
▪ I hoped we could go someplace.
▪ I was someplace else, waiting.
▪ It is certainly possible to be someplace, any place and not be present in this way.
▪ You better dump this car someplace.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
someplace

1853, from some + place (n.).

Wiktionary
someplace

adv. (context informal chiefly US English) somewhere

WordNet
someplace

adv. in or at or to some place; "she must be somewhere"; (`someplace' is used informally for `somewhere') [syn: somewhere]

Usage examples of "someplace".

President of the United States is a loony and that instead of simply being shacked up someplace with a cooch dancer the Secretary of Mental Health is back in Vienna in the late 19th Century.

They would put him to teaching draftees about machineguns in the States someplace, for a year, maybe two years, maybe even till the end of the war.

Evry body feels sorry at the factery and I dont want that eather so Im going someplace where nobody knows that Charlie Gordon was once a genus and now he cant even reed a book or rite good.

It came from someplace a great deal farther away, and it was fashioned by someone of no mean skill and power.

And make certain you, Hennea, Jes, and Rinnie have someplace to sleep.

She did not want Macky going out to the Casa Loma or someplace with some other woman.

She was not sure what she hoped to findmaybe someplace where the defensive lines did not have a clear view of the river channel, perhaps a cluster of mogo trunks that could be brought down atop the heads of the defenders.

Tennessee or someplace with all the ofays to work in a car factory and make a living.

Schools react spasmodically, dart forward, hesitate, turn, regather a floor lower, and emigrate someplace where other seaweed waves.

The clothes he wore were foreign to Akeela, full of crimson and silk, bespeaking someplace far away.

Tregare had to make do with brief, fragmentary reports from Peralta, plus occasional items from Zelde whenever she was someplace where communications could get through.

Drumming knuckles on his own control console, Tregare had to make do with brief, fragmentary reports from Peralta, plus occasional items from Zelde whenever she was someplace where communications could get through.

Sir Thomas is living in the Bahamas someplace under the name of Juan Tizol with a very zoftig ex-lab assistant of his.

Kellen had been forced to contend with when riding Shalkan bareback, the saddle gave him a wide comfortable seat, and the stirrups gave him someplace to put his feet and a way to brace himself.

I was someplace that was homey and at the same time as lonely as the stars.