somewhen

English

Etymology

some +‎ when

Adverb

somewhen (not comparable)

1. (rare, nonstandard) at some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime
   • 1864, Robert Browning, “Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"”, in Wikisource, line 505‎^[1], retrieved 2012-01-18:

     Out of the drift of facts, whereby you learn / What some was, somewhere, somewhen, somewhy?

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXXVI, in Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman‎^[2] (Fiction):

     Yes, though nobody else should reproach me if we should stay together, yet somewhen, years hence, ...

   • 2002, Marc Lange, “What Is Spatiotemporal Locality?”, in An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics: Locality, Fields, Energy, and Mass‎^[3] (Science / Philosophy), Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 4:

     An event is a particular thing that happens somewhere and somewhen.

   • 2008, Michael F. Wagner, “Chapter One”, in The Enigmatic Reality of Time‎^[4] (Science / Physics), Brill, →ISBN, page 26:

     … things always exist or occur somewhen as well. They exist or occur whenever — at whatever times-when — they in fact exist or occur, and not somewhen else.

   • 2009, Marta Randall, “Secret Rider”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, Trips in Time: Time Travel Tales (Collection of Short Stories)‎^[5] (SciFi), Wildside Press, →ISBN, page 120:

     Somewhen, curling through the intricacies of tau, John/Johan still lived. Somewhen on this very planet he lived, …

Synonyms

• at some point, somewhere along the line; see also Thesaurus:sometime

Related terms

• elsewhen

Translations

at some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime

• Finnish: joskus (fi)
• German: irgendwann (de)
• Polish: kiedyś (pl)
• Russian: когда-нибудь (ru) (kogda-nibudʹ)

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, somewhen

Anagrams

• home-sewn, homesewn