Word info

another place

Noun

Meaning

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see another,‎ place.

(In the House of Commons) the House of Lords.

(In the House of Lords) the House of Commons.

(Oxford University slang, derogatory) University of Cambridge.

(Cambridge University slang, derogatory) University of Oxford.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place. Elizabeth Gilbert

And here was another place and another girl. Oh, how lonely she was, from away back in Minnesota. A good family too. Sure, honey. Tell my tired ears about your good family. John Fante

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place. Michel Foucault

Lady writer on the TV She had all the brains and the beauty. The picture does not fit You talked to me when you felt like it. Just the way that her hair fell down around her face Then I recall my fall from grace Another time, another place. Mark Knopfler

Capital grows in one place to a huge mass in a single hand, because it has in another place been lost by many. This is centralisation proper, as distinct from accumulation and concentration. Karl Marx

It is one and the same Avatara that, having plunged into the ocean of life, rises up in one place and is known as Krishna, and diving again rises in another place and is known as Christ. Ramakrishna

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