Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- At some time, indefinitely; some time or other.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb rare At some indefinite time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb at some time;
indefinitely ; some time or other,sometime
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Examples
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My German friend made up the word "somewhen" last night when trying to think of the word "sometime".
Archive 2009-07-01 C N Heidelberg 2009
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My German friend made up the word "somewhen" last night when trying to think of the word "sometime".
German words I've completely adopted C N Heidelberg 2009
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It may simply be my lack of understanding of relativity and of quantum physics although Richard Feynmann suggested that no one understands it, which makes me feel somewhat better, but I remain to be persuaded that the past continues to exist 'somewhen'.
Archive 2007-07-01 James F. McGrath 2007
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We went somewhere ... somewhen, that is, for we are still here now .... "
DragonFlight McCaffrey, Anne 1968
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The word is now so bound to domestic abuse and child abuse that it may only be matter of time before that specific sense overshadows the more general sense and someone, somewhere, somewhen, ends up discussing whether the use of the word “abuse” in relation to the meaning of words risks offending abuse victims and trivialising their suffering.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Somehow, somewhen the Indo-European languages reached points as far separated as the Ganges River valley and the British Isles, and the cultivation of plants spread from a handful of locations to the entire world.
Britain 2010
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The word is now so bound to domestic abuse and child abuse that it may only be matter of time before that specific sense overshadows the more general sense and someone, somewhere, somewhen, ends up discussing whether the use of the word “abuse” in relation to the meaning of words risks offending abuse victims and trivialising their suffering.
On Profanity: 4 Hal Duncan 2009
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Perhaps times will change again and you will be able come back to FLOSS Weekly somewhen in the future.
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I'm sure I've seen another discussion, somewhere on the Internet at somewhen, a discussion of villains and sex.
Sex for the Oppositional Victoria Janssen 2010
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Somewhere, somewhen, it seems quite certain that such events have taken place -- a (nameless) girl judged by a (faceless) group of moralists, stripped and bound to a post before some seat of patriarchal power, ready to suffer a rough retribution for her transgression of society's mores.
Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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A second reason is banal but overlooked: a novel must be set both somewhere and “somewhen”, and the choice is restricted to the present, the future and the past.
David Mitchell on Historical Fiction Susie Coen 2024
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