"out of nowhere" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Audio: En-au-out of nowhere.ogg
Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} out of nowhere, {{en-PP}} out of nowhere
  1. (idiomatic) In an unexpected or inexplicable manner of arrival or occurrence. Tags: idiomatic Translations (unexpectedly or unexplicably): uit het niets (Dutch), als een donderslag bij heldere hemel (Dutch), kuin tyhjästä (Finnish), puun takaa (Finnish), puskista (Finnish), de nulle part (French), aus heiterem Himmel (German), a semmiből (Hungarian), dal nulla (Italian), come un fulmine a ciel sereno (Italian), all'improvviso (Italian), inaspettatamente (Italian), ingensteds fra (Norwegian), nāhwanon (Old English), znikąd (Polish), do nada (Portuguese), da cartola (Portuguese), отку́да ни возьми́сь (otkúda ni vozʹmísʹ) (Russian), de la nada (Spanish), bir anda (Turkish), durduk yere (Turkish)

Alternative forms

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          "sense": "unexpectedly or unexplicably",
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          "sense": "unexpectedly or unexplicably",
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          "sense": "unexpectedly or unexplicably",
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          "sense": "unexpectedly or unexplicably",
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      "sense": "unexpectedly or unexplicably",
      "word": "de nulle part"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unexpectedly or unexplicably",
      "word": "aus heiterem Himmel"
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      "sense": "unexpectedly or unexplicably",
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      "sense": "unexpectedly or unexplicably",
      "word": "dal nulla"
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "unexpectedly or unexplicably",
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      "word": "all'improvviso"
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      "sense": "unexpectedly or unexplicably",
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      "sense": "unexpectedly or unexplicably",
      "word": "ingensteds fra"
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      "sense": "unexpectedly or unexplicably",
      "word": "nāhwanon"
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      "sense": "unexpectedly or unexplicably",
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      "sense": "unexpectedly or unexplicably",
      "word": "do nada"
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      "word": "da cartola"
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      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "unexpectedly or unexplicably",
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      "sense": "unexpectedly or unexplicably",
      "word": "de la nada"
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      "sense": "unexpectedly or unexplicably",
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