sometime
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See also: some time
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English somtyme, som time, some tyme, sume time, sumtym, sumtyme, equivalent to some + time.
Pronunciation
- enPR: sŭmʹtīm', IPA(key): /ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Hyphenation: some‧time
Adverb
sometime (not comparable)
- At an indefinite but stated time in the past or future.
- I'll see you at the pub sometime this evening.
- This will certainly happen sometime in the future.
- It happened sometime yesterday.
- 1995, John Frank Williams, The Quarantined Culture: Australian Reactions to Modernism, 1913–1939, page 219:
- But while there remains a considerable degree of consensus that the consequence of apparently losing the plot sometime between 1914 and 1918 was the cultural and economic malaise of the 1920s and 1930s, there are still some who look back on the interwar years less with criticism than with nostalgia.
- (obsolete) Sometimes.
- (obsolete) At an unstated past or future time; once; formerly.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?
Synonyms
- (at an indefinite time in the future): at some point, at some time, at some time or other, somewhen; see also Thesaurus:sometime
- (at an indefinite time in the past): at one time, in the past; see also Thesaurus:formerly
- (sometimes):
Derived terms
- sometime thing
- sometime or other, sometime or another
- sometimey
Related terms
Translations
at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future
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obsolete: sometimes — see sometimes
Adjective
sometime (not comparable)
- Former, erstwhile; at some previous time.
- my sometime friend and mentor
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen / Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state
- 1832, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Ion: A Tragedy, in Five Acts:
- Ion our sometime darling, whom we prized / As a stray gift, by bounteous Heaven dismiss'd
- Occasional; intermittent.
- an author and sometime lecturer
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
former
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occasional — see occasional
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