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nowheresville

noun no·wheres·ville \ ˈnō-ˌ(h)werz-ˌvil , -(h)wərz- \

Definition of nowheresville

: nowhere: such as

a : a location lacking identifying or individualizing qualities

b : a place or state denoting failure or relative obscurity

a career heading towards nowheresville

Examples of nowheresville in a Sentence

after years of languishing in nowheresville, she started to make it really big in the art world

Recent Examples of nowheresville from the Web

My parents were born in South Korea, but I was born in Los Angeles, raised in a nowheresville suburb on frozen TV dinners and laugh-track sitcoms.

— Longreads, "My Mongolian Spot," 1 Aug. 2017

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First Known Use of nowheresville

1917

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