adverb, adjective
adverb (also some time) at a time that you do not know exactly or has not yet been decided:
I saw him sometime last summer. * We must get together sometime.
adjective [onlybeforenoun] (formal)
1 used to refer to what sb used to be:
Thomas Atkins, sometime vicar of this parish
2 (AmE) used to refer to what sb does occasionally:
a sometime contributor to this magazine
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sometime is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does sometime appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — sometime appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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