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Meaning of elsewhen | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR B2
/ˈɛlsʍɛn/

Definitions

At some other time or times; somewhen else.

archaic, not-comparable

Examples

“And thus for this time I will take my leave of your mastership, purposing elsewhen to trouble you with the talk of longer letters, if I may learn that your gentleness will warrant my boldness therein.”
“On the Saturday following, her [Alice Benden's] husband [Edward Benden] willed her to go to church; which she both then and elsewhen refused to go.”
“Never, elsewhen, from heaven when all serene / Fell there more levin-bolts; nor flamed so oft / Comets with curses fraught.”
“The first person singular present indicative active may be used in a way similar to the 'historic' present. It may be used to describe my own performances elsewhere and elsewhen: [...]”
“For it can be argued that what SF [science fiction] calls the future—its quest for alien contacts and worlds elsewhere and elsewhen—is an infosphere.”
“Any spacetime point in this boundary, which is distinct from the origin point, is both elsewhere and elsewhen from it. There are no privileged directions in the elsewhere or the elsewhen.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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