Lexic.us

Definition of Sometime

1. Adjective. Belonging to some prior time. "Her quondam lover"

2. Adverb. At some indefinite or unstated time. "It was to be printed sometime later"

Definition of Sometime

1. adv. At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.

2. a. Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.

Definition of Sometime

1. Adverb. (American English) At an unstated or indefinite time in the future ¹

2. Adverb. (obsolete) sometimes ¹

3. Adjective. Former, erstwhile; at some previous time. ¹

4. Adjective. Occasional. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sometime

1. at some future time [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sometime

something bad something else something fierce something for the weekend something good something is rotten in the state of Denmark something like something or other something tells one something terrible

something to write home about somethinged somethinging somethings somethingth sometime (current term) sometime(a) sometimes someway someways

somewhat somewhat poorly drained soil somewhats somewhen somewhence somewhere somewhere along the line somewhere else somewhereness somewheres

Literary usage of Sometime

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bookman (1903)
"sometime our lips may meet, and all our Ч мм* Melt into one embrace that sums ... My love, О sweet sometime! . . . And yet the time that is not that sweet ..."

2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"Poor empty eyes and faces, wan and wet With Life's great grief, beside The other's coffin, sealed with silence, yet And you or I must look sometime. ..."

3. A survey of London by John Stow (1842)
"This church was sometime a synagogue of the Jews, then a parish church, then a chapel to St. Olave's in the Jury, until the 7th of Edward IV., ..."

4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"... sometime cry, an' sometime they don't know fwhat they do, an' sometime they are all for ... sometime ..."

5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"Henry Stubbs, sometime minister of this shire man, out of Gray's Inn Hall. church, sometime when he lived ; died ye ..."

6. The Index Library by British Record Society (1897)
"1590 Stoddart, Agnes, sometime spouse to Hector Rae, merchant, „ John, skinner, burgess of Perth 19 Aug. 1595 burgess of Edinburgh 27 July 1600 „ Alexander, ..."

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