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somehow or other

somehow or other adverb: one way or another; by some (mysterious) means.

Adverb

somehow or other (not comparable)

  1. One way or another; by some (mysterious) means.
    • Somehow or other they managed to get that grand piano upstairs.

somehow or other meaning in Tamil

somehow or other in Tamil

எவ்வகையிலாவது, எப்படியாவது

Forms of somehow or other

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Questions about somehow or other

What does somehow or other mean?
Somehow or other means one way or another; by some (mysterious) means.
What is somehow or other in Tamil?
Somehow or other in Tamil is எவ்வகையிலாவது, எப்படியாவது. See Somehow or other meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is somehow or other?
Somehow or other is an adverb.

Words near somehow or other in the dictionary

  1. somefin'
  2. somefink
  3. somefur
  4. somehow
  5. somehow or another
  6. somehow or other
  7. somehow or the other
  8. somemore
  9. somen
  10. someone
  11. someone else

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Adapted from Wiktionary: somehow or other (page history and authors); somehow or other (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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