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[ adverb ] at some indefinite or unstated time

Examples

"let's get together sometime" "everything has to end sometime" "It was to be printed sometime later"

Used in print

("Editorials"...)

The escalation must end sometime , and probably quite soon .

(Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)

Such was the impromptu that Voltaire gave to howls of laughter at Sans_Souci and that was soon circulated in manuscript throughout the literary circles of Europe , to be printed sometime later , but with the name of Timon_of_Athens , the famous misanthrope , substituted for that of Rousseau .

(S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)

Sometime on Saturday evening , August 22nd , while my family and I were dining at the Hostaria_dell_'Orso , in Rome , you jimmied a window of our home in Bucks_County , Pennsylvania , and let yourselves into the premises .

2
[ adjective ] belonging to some prior time

Examples

"erstwhile friend" "our former glory" "the once capital of the state" "her quondam lover"

Related terms

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