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Sometime vs Somewhere - What's the difference?

sometime | somewhere |

As adverbs the difference between sometime and somewhere

is that sometime is at an unstated or indefinite time in the future while somewhere is in an uncertain or unspecified location.

As an adjective sometime

is former, erstwhile; at some previous time.

As a noun somewhere is

unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.

sometime

English

Alternative forms

* some time (adverbial sense)

Adverb

(-)
  • (US) At an unstated or indefinite time in the future
    • I'll see you at the pub sometime this evening
    This will certainly happen sometime in the future
  • (obsolete) sometimes
  • (obsolete) At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?

    Synonyms

    * at some point * at some time, at some time or other * somewhen

    Derived terms

    * a sometime thing * sometime or other * sometimey

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Former, erstwhile; at some previous time.
    • my sometime friend and mentor
    Our sometime sister, now our queen. — Shakespeare.
    Ion, our sometime darling, whom we prized. — Talfourd.
  • Occasional.

    • Synonyms

    * (former) earlier, erstwhile, ex-, previous * (occasional)

    somewhere

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In an uncertain or unspecified location.
    • I must have left my glasses somewhere .
    I've hidden some candies somewhere .
  • To an uncertain or unspecified location.
    • He plans to go somewhere warm for his vacation.
    I have to go somewhere at lunch. Can I meet you at 2?

    Synonyms

    * someplace (US)

    Derived terms

    * somewhere over the rainbow

    Related terms

    * anywhere * everywhere * nowhere * somebody, someone * something

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.
  • * 1986 , Joel S. Goldsmith, A Parenthesis in Eternity: Living the Mystical Life , page 100:
    • We have come from somewhere and we are going somewhere, but because life is an unending circle, we are again going to come from a somewhere', and we are again going to go to a ' somewhere , and this will go on, and on, and on.
  • * 2008 , Bill Watkins, The Once and Future Celt , page 283:
    • A courting owl hoots in the somewheres of the night and another answers its call further off.
  • * 2012 , Thomas M. Kitts, Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty , page 6:
    • and it transports the person to a somewhere', a ' somewhere that the music dictates.
    English compound determinatives