somewhen

[ suhm-hwen, -wen ]

adverb

, Archaic.

1. sometime.

Word History and Origins

Origin of somewhen¹

1250–1300; Middle English sumwhanne; some, when

Example Sentences

Apollonius was born75 at Tyana, a city in the south of Cappadocia, somewhen in the early years of the Christian era.

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To one who inquired as to the derivation of the phrase a poet unknown to me thus replied, somewhen in the reign of William IV.

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And the poet avows his confidence that somewhen Good will praise God unisonous with Power.

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But your mind does, and it's like you wake up in somebody else's body, drawn to him like a magnet, somebody else—somewhen else.

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Yet, somehow, somewhen, one would have to settle accounts with him!

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Related Words

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