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sometime

adverbeadjectifcourant dans les dialogues

  • //ˈsʌmˌtaɪm//

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

adverbe

  1. 1

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

    I'll see you at the pub sometime this evening.

    This will certainly happen sometime in the future.

    It happened sometime yesterday.

    But while there remains a considerable degree of consensus that the consequence of apparently losing the plot sometime between 1914 and 1918 was the cultural and economic malaise of the 1920s and 1930s, there are still some who look back on the interwar years less with criticism than with nostalgia.

  2. 2

    obsolèteSometimes.

  3. 3

    obsolèteAt an unstated past or future time; once; formerly.

    Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?

Étymologie

From Middle English somtyme, som time, some tyme, sume time, sumtym, sumtyme, equivalent to some + time.

adjectif

  1. 1

    Former, erstwhile; at some previous time.

    my sometime friend and mentor

    Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen / Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state

    Ion our sometime darling, whom we prized / As a stray gift, by bounteous Heaven dismiss'd

  2. 2

    Occasional; intermittent.

    an author and sometime lecturer

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