Synonyms:
erstwhile(a), former(a), old, onetime(a), one-time(a), quondam(a), sometime(a)
Meaning: belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"
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meaning of the word
Synonyms:
sometime
Meaning: at some indefinite or unstated time; "let's get together sometime"; "everything has to end sometime"; "It was to be printed sometime later"
Usage examples
"One must die sometime," he said.
"Sometime, perhaps--if I'm very careful--"
Even then, however, she did not give up the hope of her husband's arrival sometime during the night.
She never would before for fear it might come in handy sometime and I've had to whitewash it every spring.
But it had to come to earth sometime, and it fell like Lucifer, son of the morning, in the middle of the same bunker. . . .
The Countess's need to believe in the faith of her sometime attorney was so great, that she dared not entertain any suspicion of him.
Following it at a respectful distance, Riah passed into the bed-chamber, where a fire had been sometime lighted, and was burning briskly.
And there Sir Marhaus did so nobly that he was renowned, and had sometime down forty knights, and so the circlet of gold was rewarded him.
Barbara, we are here alone in the still night, with God above us; as truly as that you and I must sometime meet Him face to face, I told you the truth.
Sometime afterwards, Eurystheus, having heard rumors of a wonderful tree which, in some unknown land, yielded golden apples, was moved with great greed to have some of this remarkable fruit.