I. ˈnōˌ(h)we](ə)r, -wa(a)], ]ə; when a stressed syllable, as “else,” follows, sometimes -ōwə(r)\ adverb
Etymology: Middle English nowher, from Old English nāhwær, from nā no + hwær where, anywhere — more at where
1.
a. : not anywhere : not in or at any place
the book is nowhere to be found
he discovered gold nowhere
has property everywhere and a home nowhere
b. : to no place
has gone nowhere for months
2. : not in any part of a book : in no written work or writer
this word is nowhere used by Shakespeare
these facts are nowhere stated
3.
a. : far behind : out of the running
is nowhere when it comes to the race for class president
a dazzling exhibition of grace and beauty that left her rivals nowhere — Current Biography
b. : to no position or state of advancement
a project going nowhere
the team will get nowhere this year
II. noun
1. : a place that does not exist
as if all truth was gone out, and night and nowhere had the world — Horace Bushnell
2. : an unknown or undeveloped place : wilderness
lost forever in the nowhere of South America — Marcia Davenport
the lumbermen, construction workers and miners who are carving towns out of nowhere in Canada — Bill Wolf
3. : a state of not existing or of not being known to exist
out of the nowhere into the here came trouble — W.A.White
an officer appeared from nowhere to strike the soldier sharply — Kenneth Roberts
a gossipy, clucking crowd materialized from nowhere — Anne S. Mehdevi
4. : a state of being unknown : obscurity
starting from nowhere , he became a leading politician in a few years
came out of nowhere to become a big-league star
5. : an inhabited place
found a cattleman with a broken leg miles from nowhere — Ellen Buell