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somewhen

somewhen adverb: at some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime.

Adverb

somewhen (not comparable)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) at some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime
    • Out of the drift of facts, whereby you learn / What some was, somewhere, somewhen, somewhy?1864, Robert Browning, “Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"”, in Wikisource, line 505, retrieved 18 Jan 2012
    • Yes, though nobody else should reproach me if we should stay together, yet somewhen, years hence, ...1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXXVI, in Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman (Fiction), archived from the original on 12 Jan 2012

Examples of somewhen in a sentence

  • An event is a particular thing that happens somewhere and somewhen.2002, Marc Lange, “What Is Spatiotemporal Locality?”, in An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics: Locality, Fields, Energy, and Mass...
  • … things always exist or occur somewhen as well.2008, Michael F. Wagner, “Chapter One”, in The Enigmatic Reality of Time (Science / Physics), Brill, →ISBN, page 26:
  • Somewhen, curling through the intricacies of tau, John/Johan still lived.2009, Marta Randall, “Secret Rider”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, Trips in Time: Time Travel Tales (Collection of Short Stories) (SciFi)...

Synonyms of somewhen

Origin of somewhen

From some + when.

Questions about somewhen

What does somewhen mean?
Somewhen means at some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime.
How do you use somewhen in a sentence?
An event is a particular thing that happens somewhere and somewhen.
What part of speech is somewhen?
Somewhen is an adverb.

Words near somewhen in the dictionary

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

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