sometimeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 somtyme, som time, some tyme, sume time, sumtym, sumtyme, equivalent to some +‎ time.

発音

• enPR: sŭmʹtīm', IPA: /ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/
• ハイフネーション: some‧time

副詞

sometime (not comparable)

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.

   • 1995, John Frank Williams, The Quarantined Culture: Australian Reactions to Modernism, 1913–1939, page 219:

     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. (obsolete) Sometimes.
3. (obsolete) At an unstated past or future time; once; formerly.
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

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

同意語

• (at an indefinite time in the future): at some point, at some time, at some time or other, somewhen; see also Thesaurus:sometime
• (at an indefinite time in the past): at one time, in the past; see also Thesaurus:formerly
• (sometimes):

派生語

• sometime thing
• sometime or other, sometime or another
• sometimey

関連する語

• sometimes
• sooner or later

形容詞

sometime (not comparable)

1. Former, erstwhile; at some previous time.

   my sometime friend and mentor

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

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

   • 1832, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Ion: A Tragedy, in Five Acts:

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

2. Occasional; intermittent.

   an author and sometime lecturer

同意語

• (former): earlier, erstwhile, ex-, previous
• (occasional):

派生語

• sometimes

アナグラム

• timesome

名詞

some time (uncountable)

1. A period of some length.
   • 1863 July 29, Edmund Hope Verney, “Letters”, in Allan Pritchard, editor, Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney, 1862-65‎, Vancouver: UBC Press, published 1996, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 157–158:

     The clergyman, Mr Reeves, was at Shang-hae for some time, and has stayed at the Rectory in 1857 when you came to talk to him about Chinese matters.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

   • 1957 August, “Notes and News: Tithebarn Street Station, Liverpool”, in Railway Magazine, page 589:

     An old print was discovered some time ago in an arch at Waterloo Dock Goods Station[,] Liverpool, in use as a backing on which to write time sheets.

同意語

• (period of some length): some time yet

アナグラム

• timesome