Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb At times; now and then.
  • adverb Obsolete At some previous time; formerly.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • At times; now and then: as, I am sometimes at leisure; sometimes he plays Hamlet, and sometimes Othello.
  • At one time; at or for a certain time in the past; formerly; once; sometime.
  • Same as sometime.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Former; sometime.
  • adverb obsolete Formerly; sometime.
  • adverb At times; at intervals; not always; now and then; occasionally.
  • adverb at certain times … at certain other times.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete former; sometime

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always

Etymologies

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From some +‎ times.

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Examples

  • She ­sometimes wants to mock oldsters for acting young and sometimes to help them do so.

    A Dose of Behavioral Botox 2009

  • LINDENSCHMIED (_from this point on incessantly casting furtive glances sometimes at_ ANDREW, _sometimes at the gun_).

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Various

  • «modo ... modo», _now ... now, sometimes ... sometimes_

    Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

  • Don't you think that perhaps sometimes success may be -- I don't say it always is -- as high-minded as failure, that a hard-won victory may be as honourable as defeat, that achievement may _sometimes_ be the result not of chance or interest, but of unremitting toil?

    Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron Mary Cholmondeley 1892

  • And sometimes "-- she crossed her crop and looked around at him reflectively --" _sometimes_, do you know, I am almost afraid that you are so very, very good, that perhaps you are becoming almost goody-good. "

    The Younger Set 1899

  • It must come sometimes -- _all_ chindrel is c'oss _sometimes_, "she added complacently.

    Hoodie Mrs. Molesworth 1880

  • "Backlog" is a term sometimes used loosely in the industry and may not represent firm orders at all, he said.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Alison Vekshin 2011

  • In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, investors are overly concerned at the possibility of so-called black swan events, said O'Neill, using a term sometimes used to describe unlikely occurrences with severe consequences.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • I get to say her name sometimes dozens of times a day as I engage in the mission of The Sylvia Center.

    Liz Neumark: Still Talking After Seven Years Liz Neumark 2011

  • I get to say her name sometimes dozens of times a day as I engage in the mission of The Sylvia Center.

    Liz Neumark: Still Talking After Seven Years Liz Neumark 2011

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  • A veces, de vez en cuando

    October 20, 2007