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someday

adv · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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1

adv

Meaning 1

Sometime; at some unspecified time in the future.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: one day, byembye, hereafter, in the future, later, later on, one of these days, one of these fine days, someday, sooner or later

Antonyms: none provided

2

adverb

Meaning 2

some unspecified time in the future

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • someday you will understand my actions

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Univerbation of some + day.

Across languages

Translations

41 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: يَوْمًا مَا (yawman mā) — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Basque: egunen batean — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Belarusian: калі́-не́будзь (kalí-njébudzʹ) — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Bengali: একদিন (ekodin) — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Bulgarian: някой ден (njakoj den) — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Chinese Cantonese: 有日 (jau5 jat6) — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Chinese Mandarin: 日後 /日后 (rìhòu) — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Chinese Mandarin: 有一天 (yǒuyītiān) — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Danish: en dag — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Dutch: op een dag — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Dutch: ooit — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Dutch: eens — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Esperanto: iam — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Finnish: jonain päivänä — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Finnish: joskus — sometime; at some time in the future
  • French: un jour — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Galician: un día — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Georgian: ოდესმე (odesme) — sometime; at some time in the future
  • German: eines Tages — sometime; at some time in the future
  • German: irgendwann — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Hebrew: יום אחד (yom ekhád) — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Japanese: いつか (itsuka) — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Korean: 언젠가 (eonjen'ga) — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Latin: aliquando — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Norwegian Bokmål: en dag — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Norwegian Bokmål: en eller annen dag — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Nyunga: benang benang — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Old English: sume dæġe — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Polish: któregoś dnia — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Polish: kiedyś — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Portuguese: um dia — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Romanian: într-o zi — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Russian: когда́-нибу́дь (kogdá-nibúdʹ) — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Scottish Gaelic: lath'-eigin — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Scottish Gaelic: latha de na làithean — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Spanish: algún día — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Swedish: någon gång — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Tibetan: ཉིན་ཞིག (nyin zhig) — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Tibetan: ནམ་ཞིག (nam zhig) — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Ukrainian: коли́-не́будь (kolý-nébudʹ) — sometime; at some time in the future
  • Welsh: undydd — sometime; at some time in the future
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