elsewhere
part of speech
adverb (elsewhere)
meaning for a pupil
In or to another place, somewhere else. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life: «look elsewhere» if you can't find something; in maps and geography it compares places: «it is colder here than elsewhere». In stories it moves the scene to another place. Phrases: «look elsewhere», «go elsewhere», «here and elsewhere».
examples
- Elsewhere in the SY, the ‘tongue’ (or ‘wedge’) appears as the symbol of a central balance between two extremities, e.g. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
- Instead, the SY may be intimating a twofold pronunciation of Resh known among certain mediveal Jewish communities in Babylonia and elsewhere, which does indeed preserve a distinguish between ‘single’ Resh and ‘double’ Resh. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
- The shop was closed, so we went elsewhere. tree →
- My keys aren't here; they must be elsewhere. tree →
- It rained in our town but was sunny elsewhere. tree →
- If the bench is wet, sit elsewhere. tree →
- Meanwhile, elsewhere in the forest, the wolf was waiting. tree →
- The rest of the class is elsewhere in the school. tree →
- If they were not dead, they had flown elsewhere. tree →
note
One word. It is an adverb, so it does not take «the» or «a». Same as «somewhere else». Say «nowhere else», not «nowhere elsewhere».
In the corpora
- "Population transfer" means forcing people out of their homes and moving them elsewhere.
- Missing something in plain sight because your attention is elsewhere is called inattentional blindness.
- Walk in the kitchen and play elsewhere while cooking happens.
- In Japan, and in many homes elsewhere, people take their shoes off at the door, and guests do the same.
- It was the same story elsewhere.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «elsewhere» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.