sometime

B1 Topic:Time
US /ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/
adv adj Freq #2510

Meanings

  1. 1
    adv

    At a time that is not stated exactly.

    Let's get together sometime next week.

  2. 2
    adj

    Former; from an earlier time.

    He introduced his sometime friend and mentor.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adv · at a time that is not... at one timeat some point
2 adj · former; from an earlier time. earliererstwhileprevious
More dreklyformerlyothersomewhenwhenevs
Word family
Derived forms sometimessometimey
Related forms eventuallysometimes

Etymology

From Middle English somtyme, som time, some tyme, sume time, sumtym, sumtyme, equivalent to some + time.

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