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adjective
1.
Quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity.  "Some roses were still blooming" , "Having some friends over" , "Some apples" , "Some paper"  Antonyms: all, no.
2.
Relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent.  "He was still some distance away"
3.
Relatively many but unspecified in number.  "We did not meet again for some years"
4.
Remarkable.  "She is some skier"
adverb
1.
(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct.  Synonyms: about, approximately, around, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly.  "In just about a minute" , "He's about 30 years old" , "I've had about all I can stand" , "We meet about once a month" , "Some forty people came" , "Weighs around a hundred pounds" , "Roughly $3,000" , "Holds 3 gallons, more or less" , "20 or so people were at the party"



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"Some" Quotes from Famous Books



... replied the forester. "On my way here I peeped into the inn yard, and waited for some one that I knew. Then Rebecca ran by me with a basket; I whistled, and called her out behind the stable. 'Are you there, old Swede?' said the wild thing. 'Take care that your head be not set on fire. I have no time to ...
— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag
... the words of his voice of compassion: "Come cling round about me, ye faithful who sicken Of the weary unrest and the world's passing fashion! As the rain in mid-morning your troubles shall thicken, But surely within you some Godhead doth quicken, As ye cry to me heeding, ...
— Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough • William Morris
... brushed the dust from it, and laid it across a chair. This done, she put the light back on the table, and going to the window, listened for the first sounds of the German advance. The faint passage of the wind through some trees near at hand was the only sound that caught her ears. She turned from the window, and seated herself at the table, thinking. Was there any duty still left undone that Christian charity owed to the dead? Was there any further service that pressed for ...
— The New Magdalen • Wilkie Collins
... give me such a cool reception?" he asked, with cynical good-nature. "Well, you're mistaken; I don't suppose I mind the Hallecks any more than they do me. I'll tell you why I stayed. Some people dropped down on Witherby, who were a little out of his line,—fashionable people that he had asked to let him know if they ever came to Boston; and when they did come and let him know, he didn't know what to do about it, and he called on me to help him out. ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... with the animals toward the centre, and the men on the inside, with their arms in readiness to repel an attack from without. If these arrangements be properly attended to, few parties of Indians will venture to make an attack, as they are well aware that some of their warriors might pay with their lives the ...
— The Prairie Traveler - A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions • Randolph Marcy


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