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somewhats

somewhats is the plural of somewhat.

Meaning of somewhat

Noun

somewhat (countable and uncountable, plural somewhats)

  1. A certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
    • Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
  2. A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
    • Pity that the researchful notary has not either told us in what century, and of what history, he was a writer, or been simply content to depose, that Lollius, if a writer of that name existed at all, was a somewhat somewhere.c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Troilus and Cressida

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Questions about somewhats

What is somewhats the plural of?
Somewhats is the plural of somewhat.

Words near somewhats in the dictionary

  1. someways
  2. someweh
  3. somewhat
  4. somewhatly
  5. somewhatness
  6. somewhats
  7. somewhen
  8. somewhence
  9. somewhere
  10. somewhere along the line
  11. somewhere else

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