Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of sometime.
Why don't you come up some time and see me?
1933, Mae West, She Done Him Wrong (motion picture), spoken by Lady Lou (Mae West)1 more example
The Auburn Knights of Honor will present the mock exposé of the initiatory ceremonies, given last year by the Lewiston lodge with such rich success, with new and improved details, in their hall, some time next month.
1881 December 27, “City and County”, in Lewiston Evening Journal, 5 p.m. edition, volume XXI, Lewiston, Me., →OCLC, page [3], column 1
- uncountableA period of some length.
The clergyman, Mr Reeves, was at Shang-hae for some time, and has stayed at the Rectory in 1857 when you came to talk to him about Chinese matters.
1863 July 29, Edmund Hope Verney, “Letters”, in Allan Pritchard, editor, Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney, 1862-65, Vancouver: UBC Press, published 1996, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 157–1582 more examples
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLCAn old print was discovered some time ago in an arch at Waterloo Dock Goods Station[,] Liverpool, in use as a backing on which to write time sheets.
1957 August 28, “Notes and News: Tithebarn Street Station, Liverpool”, in Railway Magazine, page 589Synonyms: some time yet
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA period of some length.
Translations
Finnish jonkin aikaa
- jonkin aikaaa period of some length
German geraume Zeit
- geraume Zeita period of some length
Polish jakiś czas
- jakiś czasa period of some length
Russian како́е-то вре́мя
- како́е-то вре́мя (kakóje-to vrémja)a period of some length
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