SOMEDAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does someday mean? 

• SOMEDAY (adverb)
  The adverb SOMEDAY has 1 sense:

1. some unspecified time in the future

  Familiarity information: SOMEDAY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOMEDAY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Some unspecified time in the future

Context example:

someday you will understand my actions

 Context examples 

And anti-cytokine drugs could someday be used in patients with depression when other drugs have failed.

(Anti-inflammatory Drugs Also Fight Depression, Voanews)

The choice of treatment depends on the size of the tumor, whether the cancer has spread and whether you would like to become pregnant someday.

(Cervical Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

The protein discovery could someday ease one serious complication for diabetics.

(Protein Discovery Could Help Heal Bones in Diabetics, VOA)

"I shall keep it, just the same," said the Witch, laughing at her, "and someday I shall get the other one from you, too."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

If you have children, you may hope to leave them a legacy someday.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Its stars are still embedded within their cloud but will someday break out to produce bubbles like those of W40.

('Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars, NASA)

Saturn has rings, but it's possible that one of our closest neighbors also had rings at one point and may have them again someday.

(Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day, NASA)

Further research is needed, but our findings show promise for someday using the drug we developed for skin diseases such as psoriasis, and wounds resulting from diabetes or plastic surgery, said researcher Subroto Chatterjee, a professor of pediatrics and medicine.

(New Experimental Drug Reverses Hair Loss, Skin Damage, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The authors of this study, Leila Wehbe, Ph.D. student in the Machine Learning Department of the Carnegie Mellon University and Tom Mitchell, the department head, said the model is still inexact, but might someday be useful in studying and diagnosing reading disorders, such as dyslexia, or to track the recovery of patients whose speech was impacted by a stroke.

(Researchers identify brain regions that encode words, grammar, story, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The finding that anti-inflammatory drugs may ease depressive symptoms could someday lead to the use of a blood test for inflammation in people who suffer from depression.

(Anti-inflammatory Drugs Also Fight Depression, Voanews)