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in, at, or to any place.
to any extent; to some degree:
does my answer come anywhere near the right one?
any place or direction:
they knew the attack could come from anywhere.
get anywhere, to achieve success:
you’ll never get anywhere with that att-tude!
historical examples

why, tub-be sure, man, what ‘ud hinder you that you wouldn’t hear them talkin’ same as anywheres else?
strangers at lisconnel barlow jane

just set them anywheres down on the sh-r-, and they’ll dig all day and be as happy as clams.
eyebright susan coolidge

neptoon can put up a better article of fight right around this same spot here than anywheres else i know.
the boy with the u. s. life-savers francis rolt-wheeler

i tick, tick, tick all day over this pesky business, but i don’t get anywheres.
shavings joseph c. lincoln

why, cap’n wixon, barrin’ that your whiskers are a bit longer and a taste grayer, i’d ‘a’ known you anywheres.
the depot master joseph c. lincoln

there i was, afoot, an’ no tellin’ how far from anywheres or what direction it laid.
prairie flowers james b. hendryx

now, mr. cobb, we’ve talked a whole lot and it don’t seem to me we got anywheres.
thankful’s inheritance joseph c. lincoln

never fear, we’ll find a shop somewheres, an’ anywheres is better nor this.
her benny silas kitto hocking

we’ll stir up the neighbors, an’ ‘f your tea-set’s anywheres above ground, we’ll have it back, or i’ll miss my guess.
country neighbors alice brown

i don’t say but what she’s a good girl; there ain’t a better in leatherwood, or anywheres.
the leatherwood g-d william dean howells

adverb
(us) a nonstandard word for anywhere
adverb
in, at, or to any place
get anywhere, to be successful: it took three years before he got anywhere
anywhere from, any quant-ty, time, degree, etc, above a specified limit: he could be anywhere from 40 to 50 years old
adv.

late 14c., from any + where. earlier words in this sense were owhere, oughwhere, aywhere, literally “aught where” (see aught (1)).