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Rex Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Nowhere

0 01b00When Romanians become citizens of the European Union on 1 January, they will find they are barred from working in most European countries.02b02br
00But more than two million Romanians, a tenth of the country's population, are already there, mainly in Spain and Italy. 02br
00Overall, they send home more than 3bn euros (£2bn) per year. 02br
00This exodus is changing the face of local communities both in Romania, and in the countries where the settlers make their new home. 02br
01b00Working people02b00 02br
00The Spanish village of Aguaviva is in the middle of nowhere, more than 100km from the nearest city. An imposing baroque church towers over tightly-knit rows of houses built in the local pale stone.02br
00 But the food shop sells Romanian salami and cheese, and if you go into the local cafe you are as likely to hear Romanian as Spanish. 02br
00The young woman behind the bar, Elena Hetea, comes from a Romanian village. She's among some 100 Romanians who now call Aguaviva home. 02br
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01font00I have difficulty in understanding the word 'nowhere' in the above. What is the meaning you get from the word 'nowhere' in this contxt?02br
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01font00You could say, for example, a war is going on in a country and peace is nowhere in sight.02font02br
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0 You're probably not aware of these meanings:01b 02br 02br 00 ------02br 00 nowhere02b 02br 02br 00 Function: 01i 00noun02i 02br 02br 01b 00202b 00 01b 00:02b 00 an unknown or undeveloped place 01b 00: 01a 00WILDERNESS02a 02b 00<lost forever in the 01i 00nowhere02i 00 of South America -- Marcia Davenport> <the lumbermen, construction workers and miners who are carving towns out of 01i 00nowhere02i 00 in Canada -- Bill Wolf>02br 02br 01b 00502b 00 01b 00:02b 00 an inhabited place <found a cattleman with a broken leg miles from 01i 00nowhere02i 00 -- Ellen Buell> 02br 02br 05002br 00 ---------02br 00 0240

  • 0 You're probably not aware of these meanings:01b 02br 02br 00 ------02br 00 nowhere02b 02br 02br 00 Function: 01i 00noun02i 02br 02br 01b 00202b 00 01b 00:02b 00 an unknown or undeveloped place 01b 00: 01a 00WILDERNESS02a 02b 00<lost forever in the 01i 00nowhere02i 00 of South America -- Marcia Davenport> <the lumbermen, construction workers and miners who are carving towns out of 01i 00nowhere02i 00 in Canada -- Bill Wolf>02br 02br 01b 00502b 00 01b 00:02b 00 an inhabited place <found a cattleman with a broken leg miles from 01i 00nowhere02i 00 -- Ellen Buell> 02br 02br 05002br 00 ---------02br 00 0240
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0 You're probably not aware of these meanings:01b02br
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00 ------02br
00 nowhere02b
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00 Function: 01i00noun02i02br
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01b00202b00 01b00:02b00 an unknown or undeveloped place 01b00: 01a
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0 "in the middle of nowhere" here can mean far away from any other towns and villages, far away from any 'signs of civilization'. 0-
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0 Thanks for the replies02br
00The funny thing is this meaning you have told me is not in my Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. It is the latest edition. I bought it a couple of weeks ago.02br
00Usually unknown, isolated or under developed place is a backwater.02br
00This Merriam Webster Dictionary which Marius mentioned is not free. I don't want to pay for
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01cite10Rex12cite10The funny thing is this meaning you have told me is not in my Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. It is the latest edition. I bought it a couple of weeks ago.12br
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10How strange. 02br
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00I have OALD, too (7th version, bought a year ago), and here it is:
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0 Tanit02br
00It's under 'middle' (because 'middle' is the first world of the sentence - they do not consider articles, prepositions etc.), but if you look 'nowhere' up, you'll read 01i00'more at "middle" 02br
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0>I don't want to pay for online dictionaries.02br
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00 You get what you pay for. 02br
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00 M-W Unabridged is quite reasonable for about $30/year, and MUCH better than it's online version. Very good in terms of synonyms. I really like it. 0-
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0 Marius02br
00It is not a matter of money. I have about ten dictionaries at home. Why should I pay some money for online dictionaries? Some of them have CDs. They bow to Bill Gates. The software version is only for Windows.02br
00This one is the only one I could find for Open Source. You know in the Open Source World things are bit different. 02br
00I can mak
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0>Why should I pay some money for online dictionaries?02br
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00 Because they 01b00are02b00 more detailed than the free online dictionaries, but of course do that only if you're online a lot of the time. 02br
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00 I found that this particular dictionary (M-W Unabridged) is very good for me, better than the others which are

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