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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

sometime

/ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/

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What does sometime mean?

adverb

  1. At an indefinite but stated time in the past or future.

adjective

  1. Former, erstwhile; at some previous time.
  2. Occasional; intermittent.
More meanings (2)

adverb

  1. (obsolete) Sometimes.
  2. (obsolete) At an unstated past or future time; once; formerly.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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In the pages of books

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“I didn’t mean that . . . it’s so hard to explain. Never mind, you’ll understand sometime, when your own turn comes.”
L. M. (Lucy Maud) MontgomeryAnne of AvonleaProject Gutenberg ebook #47
“If I were to live, this place would sometime belong to me. They all know that. I would make them tell me.”
Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret GardenProject Gutenberg ebook #113
More book examples (3)
And the sometime greater to the sometime less, and the greater that is to be to the less that is to be?
PlatoThe RepublicTranslated by Benjamin JowettProject Gutenberg ebook #1497
My chief comfort is, that the work must be sometime done, and I may as well do it, as any one else.
Charles DarwinLife and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #2087
I do not remember our arrival at my grandfather’s farm sometime before daybreak, after a drive of nearly twenty miles with heavy work-horses.
Willa CatherMy ÁntoniaProject Gutenberg ebook #242