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sometime en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- sŭmʹtīm'
- /ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English somtyme, som time, some tyme, sume time, sumtym, sumtyme, equivalent to some + time.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Former, erstwhile; at some previous time.
my sometime friend and mentor
Ion our sometime darling, whom we prized / As a stray gift, by bounteous Heaven dismiss'd
1832, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Ion: A Tragedy, in Five Acts:Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen / Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state
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]:
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(not-comparable) Occasional; intermittent.
an author and sometime lecturer
Forms
Deriveds
sometimes
Synonyms
earlier (former) · previous (former) · ex- (former) · erstwhile (former)
Translations (16)
ru пре́жний (former) · hu hajdani (former) · pt antigo (former) · hu egykori (former) · ro ex- (former) · fi entinen (former) · lv kādreizējais (former) · ru бы́вший (former) · ro anterior (former) · bg бивш (former) · lv bijušais (former) · el πρώην (former) · bg някогашен (former) · hu valamikori (former) · ro fost (former) · el αλλοτινός (former)
sometime en · ADV
Pronunciation
- sŭmʹtīm'
- /ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English somtyme, som time, some tyme, sume time, sumtym, sumtyme, equivalent to some + time.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) At an indefinite but stated time in the past or future.
It happened sometime yesterday.
This will certainly happen sometime in the future.
I'll see you at the pub sometime this evening.
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.
1995, John Frank Williams, The Quarantined Culture: Australian Reactions to Modernism, 1913–1939, page 219:
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(not-comparable, obsolete) Sometimes.
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(not-comparable, obsolete) At an unstated past or future time; once; formerly.
Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?
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]:
Forms
Antonyms
at this point in time
Deriveds
sometimey · sometime thing · sometime or another · sometime or other
Hyponyms
in the future · in the past · one day
Relateds
eventually · sooner or later · sometimes
Synonyms
somewhen · in the past · at some point (at an indefinite time in the future) · at some time · whenevs · drekly · at one time (at an indefinite time in the past) · sometime · other · somewhere along the line
Translations (53)
fi joskus (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · be калі́сьці (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · it un giorno o l'altro (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · is einhvern tíma (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · ja いつか (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · fi jonakin päivänä (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · es al rato (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · pt algum dia (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · fo onkuntíð (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · be не́калі (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · ru когда́-то (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · nb på et eller annet tidspunkt (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · cmn 下次 (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · uk коли́-небудь (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · mhr ала-кунам (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · uk коли́сь (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · de irgendwann (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · de eines Tages (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · nb en eller annen gang (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · be калі́-не́будзь (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · cs někdy (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · es algún día (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · es en algún momento (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · nb før eller senere (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · fr un jour ou l’autre (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · te ఎప్పుడో (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · sk niekedy (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · kw yn neb termyn (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · bg ня́кога (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · lv kaut kad (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · ko 언젠가 (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · mhr иктаж-кунам (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · ru когда́-нибудь (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · gd uaireigin (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · cy rhywbryd (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · cmn 某時 /某时 (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · as কেতিয়াবা (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · el κάποτε (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · kw neb termyn (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · ga am éigin (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · hu valamikor (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · gu ક્યારેક (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · ro cândva (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · sv någon gång (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · cmn 日後 /日后 (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · pl kiedyś (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · eo iam (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · la aliquandō (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · fi johonkin aikaan (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · nl ooit (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · kw neb prys (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · mk некогаш (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) · he מתישהו (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future)