elsewhen

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈɛlsʍɛn/
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/ˈɛlsʍɛn/ · /ɛlsˈʍɛn/ · /-wɛn/ · /-ˈwɛn/

Definition of elsewhen

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (archaic, not-comparable)At some other time or times; somewhen else.
    “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.”

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Etymology

From Middle English ellys whan; corresponding with else + when.

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