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.