sometime
See also: some time
English
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.
- (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.
- an author and sometime lecturer
Derived terms
Translations
former
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occasional — see occasional
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