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ailleurs

/a.jœʁ/

adverb/a.jœʁ/

elsewhere; somewhere else

Si vous ne voulez pas que je sois ici, j'irai ailleurs.If you don't want me here, I'll go elsewhere.

Synonyms: autre part

Related: avoir la tête ailleurs, avoir l'esprit ailleurs, d'ailleurs, par ailleurs

Inherited from Middle French ailleurs, from Old French aillors, aillurs (“elsewhere”), probably from Latin aliōrsum, or from a Vulgar Latin *aliore, from in *aliore loco. Possibly connected to Latin aliubī, from alibī. Compare with Occitan alhors, Portuguese alhures and Romanian aiurea.