Otherwhen
adv, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Other time (sometime else). rare
"It was the beginning of a trail leading from the here-and-now into the otherwhere, otherwhen which Simak so loved. His otherwhere, otherwhen would never find more poetic expression than in this series about the Websters, unless perhaps in ..."
- 1 Elsewhen, sometime or somewhen else, another time. not-comparable, rare
"In the contrasting phenomenological approach — because elsewhere presences here and otherwhen presences now — elsewhere and otherwhen also are present to one another, each in its own way."
Example
More examples"It was the beginning of a trail leading from the here-and-now into the otherwhere, otherwhen which Simak so loved. His otherwhere, otherwhen would never find more poetic expression than in this series about the Websters, unless perhaps in ..."
Etymology
From other + when.
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