sometime
adv/ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/
Etymology
From Middle English somtyme, som time, some tyme, sume time, sumtym, sumtyme, equivalent to some + time.
- inherited from somtyme
Definitions
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.
Sometimes.
At an unstated past or future time
At an unstated past or future time; once; formerly.
- Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?
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Former, erstwhile
Former, erstwhile; at some previous time.
- my sometime friend and mentor
- Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen / Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state
- Ion our sometime darling, whom we prized / As a stray gift, by bounteous Heaven dismiss'd
Occasional
Occasional; intermittent.
- an author and sometime lecturer
The neighborhood
- synonymat some time
- synonymother
- synonymsomewhen
- synonymin the past
- synonymformerly
- synonymdrekly
- synonymsometime
- synonymsomewhere along the line
- synonymwhenevs
- antonymat this point in time
- neighborsometimes
- neighborsooner or later
- neighboreventually
- neighborin the future
- neighborone day
- neighborin the past
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for sometime. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA