English

Adverb

somewhen ‎(not comparable)

1. at some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime

   • 1864, Browning, Robert, “Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"”, in Wikisource, line 505, retrieved 2012-01-18:

     Out of the drift of facts, whereby you learn / What some was, somewhere, somewhen, somewhy?

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, “XXXVI”, in Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman (Fiction):

     Yes, though nobody else should reproach me if we should stay together, yet somewhen, years hence, ...

   • 2002, Marc Lange, “What Is Spatiotemporal Locality?”, in An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics: Locality, Fields, Energy, and Mass (Science / Philosphy), Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 9780631225010, page 4:

     An event is a particular thing that happens somewhere and somewhen.

   • 2008, Michael F. Wagner, “Chapter One”, in The Enigmatic Reality of Time (Science / Physics), Brill, ISBN 9789004170254, page 26:

     … things always exist or occur somewhen as well. They exist or occur whenever — at whatever times-when — they in fact exist or occur, and not somewhen else.

   • 2009, Marta Randall, “Secret Rider”, in Robert Siverberg, editor, Trips in Time: Time Travel Tales (Collection of Short Stories) (SciFi), Wildside Press, ISBN 9781434404466, page 120:

     Somewhen, curling through the intricacies of tau, John/Johan still lived. Somewhen on this very planet he lived, …

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, somewhen