somewhere

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♦ some|where /s'ʌmhweər/
1 [ADV] ADV after v, ADV with be, oft ADV cl/group, from ADV
You use somewhere to refer to a place without saying exactly where you mean.
I've got a feeling I've seen him before somewhere...
I'm not going home yet. I have to go somewhere else first...
`Perhaps we can talk somewhere privately,' said Kesler...
Somewhere in Ian's room were some of the letters that she had sent him...
I needed somewhere to live in London.
2 [ADV] ADV prep
You use somewhere when giving an approximate amount, number, or time.
Caray is somewhere between 73 and 80 years of age...
The W.H.O. safety standard for ozone levels is somewhere about a hundred...
3 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you say that you are getting somewhere, you mean that you are making progress towards achieving something.
At last they were agreeing, at last they were getting somewhere...

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