SOMETIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sometime mean? 

• SOMETIME (adjective)
  The adjective SOMETIME has 1 sense:

1. belonging to some prior time

  Familiarity information: SOMETIME used as an adjective is very rare.

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

1. at some indefinite or unstated time

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOMETIME (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Belonging to some prior time

Synonyms:

erstwhile; former; old; one-time; onetime; quondam; sometime

Context example:

her quondam lover

Similar:

past (earlier than the present time; no longer current)

• SOMETIME (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At some indefinite or unstated time

Context example:

It was to be printed sometime later

 Context examples 

I said the dog doesn't go, and that settles it. I don't believe he's your dog. You may have seen him sometime. You may even sometime have driven him for his owner.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Most women have them sometime during their lives.

(Ovarian Cysts, Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health)

"If we walk far enough," said Dorothy, "I am sure we shall sometime come to some place."

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

"But we'll have another play sometime that he can see. Perhaps he'll help act. Wouldn't that be jolly?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Sometime, perhaps, reading a submitted manuscript of his, they might remember him as the fellow about whom they had received an anonymous letter.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To be sure, continued Lucy, after a few minutes silence on both sides, his mother must provide for him sometime or other; but poor Edward is so cast down by it!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

P/2016 BA14 is roughly half the size of comet 252P/LINEAR and might be a fragment that calved off sometime in the larger comet's past.

(A 'Tail' of Two Comets, NASA)

There are great, frowning precipices and much falling water, and Nature seem to have held sometime her carnival.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

An iceberg about the size of the state of Delaware split off from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf sometime between July 10 and July 12.

(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)

If I doen't find her, maybe she'll come to hear, sometime, as her loving uncle only ended his search for her when he ended his life; and if I know her, even that will turn her home at last!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)