somedayadv.

Etymology: < some pron. 2 + day n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsomeday.

At some future time. Cf. day n. Phrases 4b(a)(i).Earlier examples of some day as a two-word phrase will be found s.v. some adj.¹ 2b (b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > different time > [adverb] > at some future time or one day

yeteOE

hereafter1154

hereafterwardc1386

sometimec1386

oncea1393

whiloma1400

rather or latera1450

one of these daysa1470

one day1477

umquhile1489

in timea1500

with time?1531

sooner or later1577

odd shortly1681

some summer's day1697

first or last1700

some of these (‥) days1831

someday1898

down the road (also track)1924

1898 G. B. Shaw Candida i, in Plays Pleasant 94 Theyll ave to give you somethink someday, if it's honly to stop yore mouth.

1902 W. B. Yeats Cathleen ni Hoolihan 13 220 We might be put in the way of making Patrick a priest someday, and he so good at his books.

1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah v. 221 Something or other must make an end of you someday.

1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 119 A tea anyway for a tryst someday.

1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet ii. i. 110 He could almost see the husband which she would someday have.

1958 Nation (N.Y.) 7 June 506/1 There is an old military maxim known as Murphy's Law which asserts that where-ever there is a bolt to be turned, someday there will be someone to turn it the wrong way.

1966 Punch 24 Aug. 294 Won't someday a three-minute montage provide a more significant aesthetic treat than a sonnet?

1978 Amer. Poetry Rev. July–Aug. 31/3 It will clutch at a heart it did not seem to know, and someday die.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	someday
释义	somedayadv. Etymology: < some pron. 2 + day n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsomeday. At some future time. Cf. day n. Phrases 4b(a)(i).Earlier examples of some day as a two-word phrase will be found s.v. some adj.¹ 2b (b). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > different time > [adverb] > at some future time or one day yeteOE hereafter1154 hereafterwardc1386 sometimec1386 oncea1393 whiloma1400 rather or latera1450 one of these daysa1470 one day1477 umquhile1489 in timea1500 with time?1531 sooner or later1577 odd shortly1681 some summer's day1697 first or last1700 some of these (‥) days1831 someday1898 down the road (also track)1924 1898 G. B. Shaw Candida i, in Plays Pleasant 94 Theyll ave to give you somethink someday, if it's honly to stop yore mouth. 1902 W. B. Yeats Cathleen ni Hoolihan 13 220 We might be put in the way of making Patrick a priest someday, and he so good at his books. 1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah v. 221 Something or other must make an end of you someday. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 119 A tea anyway for a tryst someday. 1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet ii. i. 110 He could almost see the husband which she would someday have. 1958 Nation (N.Y.) 7 June 506/1 There is an old military maxim known as Murphy's Law which asserts that where-ever there is a bolt to be turned, someday there will be someone to turn it the wrong way. 1966 Punch 24 Aug. 294 Won't someday a three-minute montage provide a more significant aesthetic treat than a sonnet? 1978 Amer. Poetry Rev. July–Aug. 31/3 It will clutch at a heart it did not seem to know, and someday die. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adv.1898
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