Meaning

(rare) Other time (sometime else)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare) Other time (sometime else).
2. (rare) Elsewhen, sometime or somewhen else, another time.

Example Sentences

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 ...

The ravaging weapons of war had revealed them, had so torn the fabric of the universe that now strange paths to otherwheres and otherwhens lay open to those who were knowledgeable or courageous enough to tread those paths ...

Otherwheres and Otherwhens: Excerpts from a Gazetteer of Collective Remembering and Forgetting

Two had been found drifting around in space in one of the otherwhens, and once their existence had become known several specimens had been collected, all of the same two individuals of course. When you are connected to otherwhens, ...

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.

Word Forms

• otherwhens

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When Should You Use Otherwhen?

Use otherwhen when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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