释义
[ suhm -dey ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈsʌmˌdeɪ / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adverb at an indefinite future time.
Origin of someday before 900; Middle English sum day, Old English sum dæg; see some, day
usage note for someday The adverb someday is written solid: Perhaps someday we will know the truth. The two-word form some day means “a specific but unnamed day”: We will reschedule the meeting for some day when everyone can attend.
Words nearby someday sombrero, sombrous, some, somebody, somebody up there loves me, someday , somedeal, somehow, someone, someplace, somersault
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Example sentences from the Web for someday But Winning Marriage will be essential for the historian who, someday , tries to tell the full story.
The Real Story Behind the Fight for Marriage Equality | E.J. Graff| December 30, 2014| DAILY BEAST
For reasons Lehman may someday wish to enumerate, he and Hitchcock had a falling out.
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So while mourning the closing of De Robertis, consider that we might someday mourn the bankruptcy of whatever chain replaces it.
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It is to be hoped that someday they will be satisfied by getting candy for being good.
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Someday in the not too distant future, Romero will be beatified.
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Above everything else, it had to grow strong, so that it might institute order, so that it might someday grow weak again.
Government in Republican China | Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
Someday a Parisian barber will come to my room to skin me, and from that day forth that barber will never be heard of more.
The Innocents Abroad | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Someday , if Mrs. Gilding happens to be leaving cards, she may leave them at the Normans—or she may not.
How lovingly and tirelessly had he labored, that the boy Mukunda be someday transformed into the monk Yogananda!
Autobiography of a YOGI | Paramhansa Yogananda
Never by word or deed does he betray what thoughts occupy his mind on these ever recurring occasions, but someday , who knows?
An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah | Beth Ellis
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British Dictionary definitions for someday adverb at some unspecified time in the (distant) future
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to someday ultimately, sooner or later, finally, sometime, subsequently, yet, anytime, after a while, one of these days, one time