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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sometime
I.adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
start
▪ Well, he had to start sometime.
▪ It started sometime in the high Middle Ages with the invention of harmony.
▪ It started sometime in March, not long after Eric's arrival.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It's a long story. I'll tell you about it sometime.
▪ The burglary must have happened sometime after 8:00.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He knows Spunk's going to have to have his name fixed sometime.
▪ I could see myself just planning on going away for a weekend sometime and not planning on where until the last minute.
▪ Ideally, Brown said, the city should host the Super Bowl in a new football stadium, sometime shortly after 1999.
▪ Lucy, um, I wondered if you'd like to come over for dinner sometime, like tonight.
▪ Navy officials say they are fixing the manning problems but expect the shortages of skilled sailors to continue until sometime in 1999.
▪ One week, two week., three week, we walk in jungle, sometime up, sometime down.
▪ Photographs from the 1870S showed such a bird on the courthouse fountain, but sometime during the 1920S it had disappeared.
▪ Reform is overdue and will come - sometime.
II.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Downey's uncle is a sometime actor and screenwriter.
▪ Duval spoke at the funeral of his friend and sometime rival.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After the accusation, they are worried-sick parents, small-town pariahs, amateur lawyers, sometime sleuths, etc.
▪ Eventually he gained admission to the company and became a director and sometime governor.
▪ He was a sometime master of hypnotism.
▪ Nora and Delia, now a sometime writing team, escaped to New York.
▪ The second volume, according to Duncombe, was edited by Isaac Hawkins Browne, a poet and sometime member of parliament.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sometime

Sometime \Some"time`\, adv.

  1. At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.

    Did they not sometime cry ``All hail'' to me?
    --Shak.

  2. At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes.

    Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometime like a bear or lion.
    --Shak.

  3. At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime. ``Sometime he reckon shall.''
    --Chaucer.

Sometime

Sometime \Some"time`\ (s[u^]m"t[imac]m`), a. Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.

Our sometime sister, now our queen.
--Shak.

Ion, our sometime darling, whom we prized.
--Talfourd.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sometime

late 13c., "at one time or another" (adv.); as an adjective, late 15c. Meaning "at some future time" is late 14c. From some + time (n.).

Wiktionary
sometime

a. 1 former, erstwhile; at some previous time. 2 occasional. adv. 1 At an unstated or indefinite time in the future 2 (context obsolete English) sometimes 3 (context obsolete English) At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly. alt. 1 At an unstated or indefinite time in the future 2 (context obsolete English) sometimes 3 (context obsolete English) At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.

WordNet
sometime
  1. adj. belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover" [syn: erstwhile(a), former(a), once(a), onetime(a), quondam(a), sometime(a)]

  2. adv. at some indefinite or unstated time; "let's get together sometime"; "everything has to end sometime"; "It was to be printed sometime later"

Wikipedia
Sometime (Glenn Miller song)

Sometime is a 1939 song composed by Glenn Miller, Chummy MacGregor, and Mitchell Parish and performed for radio broadcast only. The song was never recorded in the studio but was performed live for remote radio broadcast on the Mutual and Blue Network from the Meadowbrook Ballroom in Cedar Grove, New Jersey.

Sometime (Gene Thomas song)

"Sometime" is a song written by Gene Thomas, originally released by Venus Records in 1961. After it enjoyed regional success, it was reissued on the United Artists label. The song became a top 100 hit on the national chart. The song was later covered by Doug Sahm.

Sometime (musical)

Sometime is a musical in two acts, with a book and lyrics by Rida Johnson Young and music by Rudolf Friml. Additional lyrics are by Ed Wynn. The romantic story concerns a couple kept apart for five years after the man is seen in a compromising position with another woman, but it turns out that this was a ruse planned by the other woman, and the man is innocent.

The musical opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 4, 1918 and transferred the following month to the Casino Theatre, running there until June 7, 1919 for a total of 283 performances. It was produced by Arthur Hammerstein and directed by Oscar Eagle. The music director was Herbert Stothart. It starred Wynn, Francine Larrimore, Harrison Brockbank and Mae West.

The story was told using the device of the flashback, a novelty for the time.

Usage examples of "sometime".

As terrible as that night was, I told myself that the Adagio had to end sometime.

With a deer rib bone whose end she had hollowed out to make a small depression, she fed him the agrimony concentration in small sips sometime near midnight.

About the end of July 1805 the embarrassment which sometime before had begun to be felt in the finances of Europe was alarmingly augmented.

Sometime in the past the entire Altiplano, with its lakes, rose from the bottom of the ocean .

We should reach the mouth of the River Arend sometime day after tomorrow.

Handsome and Bingo had promised to come and visit June Logan sometime, and had taken her address and telephone number.

I came over and called on you sometime as well, since you lived here when Maggie Birk did?

Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove off down the gravel toward the bivouac, carrying two drunks, who both fatuously drunkenly imagined, that once in a dream somewhere, sometime, somespace, they had managed for a moment to touch another human soul and understand it.

Sometime during the night she surfaced to hear Matty coming in, the bleeper sounding, Matty going out again.

Pete Boucher said Shorty was heading for your trailer sometime after twelve.

Beloved of her foster-child, she had become perpetually installed at Court, married to a wealthy Moor named Cabane, who was raised to the dignity of Grand Seneschal of the kingdom, whereby the sometime washerwoman found herself elevated to the rank of one of the first ladies of Naples.

When the day of triumph came, I was led with great pompe and benevolence to the appointed place, where when I was brought, I first saw the preamble of that triumph, dedicated with dancers and merry taunting jests, and in the meane season was placed before the gate of the Theater, whereas on the one side I saw the greene and fresh grasse growing before the entry thereof, whereon I greatly desired to feed: on the other side I conceived a great delectation to see when the Theater gates were opened, how all things was finely prepared and set forth: For there I might see young children and maidens in the flowre of their youth of excellent beauty, and attired gorgiously, dancing and mooved in comely order, according to the order of Grecia, for sometime they would dance in length, sometime round together, sometime divide themselves into foure parts, and sometime loose hands on every side: but when the trumpet gave warning that every man should retire to his place, then began the triumph to appeare.

He had dispatched a letter and a trusted, noble officer of his commandReichsherzog Wolfgang, who was at one and the same time uncle of the reigning Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, sometime uncle-in-law of King Arthur, and overlord of the Mark of Velegrad which Sir Bass held in feoff from himaboard one of the smaller ships of his private war fleet to London and his own king.

The pale blue of bristly gilia bloomed in a delicate patch along the sides of the dry washes lining the main valley of Sometime Never.

Old Hoogstretter, the mathematics head, had dryly suggested that sometime, in another thirty years, young Gouf might have his place.