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someone | somewhen |

As a pronoun someone

is some person.

As a noun someone

is a partially specified but unnamed person.

As an adverb somewhen is

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

someone

English

Pronoun

(English Pronouns)
  • Some person.
    • Is someone there?

    Usage notes

    * Logically related to anyone, everyone, and no one. Becomes no one via negation. *: Did anyone help with the clean-up effort? *: Yes, someone''' helped yesterday, but '''no one''' did today because '''everyone was too busy.

    Synonyms

    * anybody, anyone, somebody

    Abbreviations

    Some translation dictionaries have used the abbreviation or so for someone.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A partially specified but unnamed person.
    • Do you need a gift for that special someone ?
    The someones under discussion were eventually arrested.

    Related terms

    * no one * everyone * anyone * somewhere * something English compound determinatives English indefinite pronouns English third person pronouns 1000 English basic words

    somewhen

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • at some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime
  • :* {{quote-web
    • , date= , year=1864 , first=Robert , last=Browning , author= , authorlink=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Robert_Browning , title=Mr. Sludge, "The Medium" , site=Wikisource, line 505 citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-01-18 , passage=Out of the drift of facts, whereby you learn / What some was, somewhere, somewhen , somewhy? }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1891 , author=Thomas Hardy , title=Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman , chapter=XXXVI , genre=Fiction citation , isbn= , page= , passage=Yes, though nobody else should reproach me if we should stay together, yet somewhen , years hence, ...}}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2002 , author=Marc Lange , title=An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics: Locality, Fields, Energy, and Mass , chapter=What Is Spatiotemporal Locality? , genre=Science / Philosphy citation , isbn=9780631225010 , publisher=Wiley-Blackwell , page=4 , passage=An event is a particular thing that happens somewhere and somewhen .}}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2008 , author=Michael F. Wagner , title=The Enigmatic Reality of Time , chapter=Chapter One , genre=Science / Physics citation , publisher=Brill , isbn=9789004170254 , page=26 , passage=… 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.}}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2009 , author=Marta Randall , editor=Robert Siverberg , title=Trips in Time: Time Travel Tales (Collection of Short Stories) , chapter=Secret Rider , genre=SciFi , publisher=Wildside Press , isbn=9781434404466 citation , page=120 , passage=Somewhen', curling through the intricacies of tau, John/Johan still lived. ' Somewhen on this very planet he lived, …}}

    References

    * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, somewhen