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Webster 1913 Edition
Somewhat
Some′whatˊ
,Noun.
1.
More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
These salts have
somewhat
of a nitrous taste. Grew.
Somewhat
of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost. Dryden.
2.
A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
Here come those that worship me.
They think that I am
They think that I am
somewhat
. Tennyson.
Some′whatˊ
,adv.
In some degree or measure; a little.
His giantship is gone,
somewhat
crestfallen. Milton.
Somewhat
back from the village street. Longfellow.
Webster 1828 Edition
Somewhat
SOMEWHAT
,Noun.
1.
Something, though uncertain what.2.
More or less; a certain quantity or degree, indeterminate. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste.3.
A part, greater or less. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.SOMEWHAT
,adv.
Definition 2024
somewhat
somewhat
English
Alternative forms
- (British, dialectal) summat (and variants listed there)
Adverb
somewhat (not comparable)
- (degree) To a limited extent or degree.
- The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.
- The decision to shave or not is a somewhat personal one.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:
- I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
Translations
limited extent
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See also
Pronoun
somewhat
- (archaic) Something.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
- Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand, / As if in minde he somewhat had to say […].
- Robert Trail
- But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- Mr Jones had somewhat about him, which, though I think writers are not thoroughly agreed in its name, doth certainly inhabit some human breasts […]
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune's favourites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
Translations
something — see something
Noun
somewhat (plural somewhats)
- More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
- Grew
- These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste.
- Dryden
- Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
- Grew
- A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
- Tennyson
- Here come those that worship me. / They think that I am somewhat.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Pity that the researchful notary has not either told us in what century, and of what history, he was a writer, or been simply content to depose, that Lollius, if a writer of that name existed at all, was a somewhat somewhere.
- Tennyson