someway

English

Etymology

From some +‎ way.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsʌmweɪ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Adverb

someway (not comparable)

  1. (now chiefly US colloquial) Somehow.
    • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 161:
      Disinclined to read, and slowly pacing the drawing-room, Lord Meersbrook, after looking earnestly at two small pictures, by old masters, which had someway escaped from their brethren, which were heirlooms at Granard Park, he at length began to examine the works of ingenuity which adorned the mantel;...
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities:
      By some strange arts Isabel's wonderful story might have been, someway, and for some cause, forged for her, in her childhood, and craftily impressed upon her youthful mind; which so — like a slight mark in a young tree — had now enlargingly grown with her growth, till it had become this immense staring marvel.
    • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
      Robert spoke of his intention to go to Mexico in the autumn, where fortune awaited him. He was always intending to go to Mexico, but someway never got there.
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