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someway

/ˈsʌmweɪ/

someway adverb: somehow.

Adverb

someway (not comparable)

  1. (US, colloquial) Somehow.
    • Disinclined to read, and slowly pacing the drawing-room, Lord Meersbrook, after looking earnestly at two small pictures, by old masters, which had someway escaped from their brethren, which were heirlooms at Granard Park, he at length began to examine the works of ingenuity which adorned the...1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 161
    • By some strange arts Isabel's wonderful story might have been, someway, and for some cause, forged for her, in her childhood, and craftily impressed upon her youthful mind; which so — like a slight mark in a young tree — had now enlargingly grown with her growth, till it had become this immense...1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

Origin of someway

From some + way.

Questions about someway

What does someway mean?
Someway means somehow.
What part of speech is someway?
Someway is an adverb.
How do you pronounce someway?
Someway is pronounced /ˈsʌmweɪ/ (UK).

Words near someway in the dictionary

  1. sometimes foods
  2. sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you
  3. someting
  4. sometyme
  5. somever
  6. someway
  7. someways
  8. someweh
  9. somewhat
  10. somewhatly
  11. somewhatness

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