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Sometime
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Having been formerly; former; late; whilom. Our sometime sister, now our queen. Shak. Ion, our sometime darling, whom we prized. Talfourd.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adverb (adv.)
1. At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly. Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me Shak.
2. At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes. Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometime like a bear or lion. Shak.
3. At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime. "Sometime he reckon shall." Chaucer.