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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 attitude!
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 shore, 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 God 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 quantity, 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)).