sometime
3
5.5
- adjective
- /ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/
- Formal
:
antiguo
- One of Bogdanov's recruiters and his sometime girlfriend.
Examples
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Peering through the thick, blended lenses of his glasses, Teddy measured the expression of the man who was a sometime competitor in the pearl trade, an occasional client, and an invariably reliable appraiser.
Fiction book (2000) -
Champion of new music, sometime jazz and indie rock singer.
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I walked in Central Park, and I became a member of Yipsel and a sometime volunteer at the Workers' Defense League.
Fiction book (1995) -
One Sunday, Mike came in with his sometime companion, Laura, at the peak of brunch service.
Academic text (2007) -
The influence of his sometime colleague at the Divinity School, Schubert Ogden, may be part of the explanation.
Academic text (1993) -
But she doesn't need her divination skills to realize that the new assignment from her friend and sometime lover, Agent Harry Li, is a dangerous proposition in every way.
Blog text (20) -
On the sad side, the story came in 1890 that the son, Richard, a sometime bookkeeper in St. Joseph, had slipped into insanity, perhaps moved in that direction by deaths in the family.
Academic text (1999) -
The author in question is George Monbiot, a sometime professor with an ability to ignore basic economic realities for the sake of rhetorical extravagance.
Blog text (34) -
Gunn also might have had as a silent partner the wealthiest man in Georgia and his sometime political ally, Savannah Mayor Thomas Gibbons.
Academic text (2010) -
The actor is known as a sometime director, having previously directed a few successful films.
Synonyms
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1.0
At some time in the past when something was true but not now
1
8.1
At an earlier time but not now
How Recent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sometime as an adjective also comes from some + time, meaning 'at some time in the past', and it grew to mean 'formerly'. So a 'sometime colleague' is someone who was a colleague before, which is why sometime can mean 'former'.