Meanings
- nonstandardnot comparablerareat some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime
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 (Science / Philosophy), Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 44 more examples
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 2012Yes, 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… things always exist or occur somewhen as well. They exist or occur whenever — at whatever times-when — they in fact exist or occur, and not somewhen else.
2008, Michael F. Wagner, “Chapter One”, in The Enigmatic Reality of Time (Science / Physics), Brill, →ISBN, page 26Somewhen, curling through the intricacies of tau, John/Johan still lived. Somewhen on this very planet he lived, …
2009, Marta Randall, “Secret Rider”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, Trips in Time: Time Travel Tales (Collection of Short Stories) (SciFi), Wildside Press, →ISBN, page 120Synonyms: at some point, somewhere along the line
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbat some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime
Origin
Translations
Finnish joskus
- joskusat some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime
German irgendwann
- irgendwannat some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime
Polish kiedyś
- kiedyśat some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime
Russian когда-нибудь
- когда-нибудь (kogda-nibudʹ)at some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime
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