HOW TO PRONOUNCE
sometime
/ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/
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What does sometime mean?
adverb
- At an indefinite but stated time in the past or future.
adjective
- Former, erstwhile; at some previous time.
- Occasional; intermittent.
More meanings (2)
adverb
- (obsolete) Sometimes.
- (obsolete) At an unstated past or future time; once; formerly.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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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.”
“If I were to live, this place would sometime belong to me. They all know that. I would make them tell me.”
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And the sometime greater to the sometime less, and the greater that is to be to the less that is to be?
My chief comfort is, that the work must be sometime done, and I may as well do it, as any one else.
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.