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somewhen en · ADV

Etymology

From some + when.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, not-comparable, rare) at some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime
    • … things always exist or occur somewhen as well. They exist or occur whenever — at whatever times-when — they in fact exist or occur, and not somewhen else. 2008, Michael F. Wagner, “Chapter One”, in The Enigmatic Reality of Time (Science / Physics), Brill, →ISBN, page 26:
    • An event is a particular thing that happens somewhere and somewhen. 2002, Marc Lange, “What Is Spatiotemporal Locality?”, in An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics: Locality, Fields, Energy, and Mass (Science / Philosophy), Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 4:
    • Somewhen, curling through the intricacies of tau, John/Johan still lived. Somewhen on this very planet he lived, … 2009, Marta Randall, “Secret Rider”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, Trips in Time: Time Travel Tales (Collection of Short Stories) (SciFi), Wildside Press, →ISBN, page 120:
    • Out of the drift of facts, whereby you learn / What some was, somewhere, somewhen, somewhy? 1864, Robert Browning, “Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"”, in Wikisource, line 505, retrieved 18 Jan 2012:
    • Yes, though nobody else should reproach me if we should stay together, yet somewhen, years hence, ... 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXXVI, in Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman (Fiction), archived from the original on 12 Jan 2012:

Relateds

elsewhen

Synonyms

at some point · somewhere along the line

Translations (5)

de irgendwann (at some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime) · az nə vaxtsa (at some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime) · ru когда-нибудь (at some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime) · fi joskus (at some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime) · pl kiedyś (at some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime)