some adj

1 quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity; "have some milk"; "some roses were still blooming"; "having some friends over"; "some apples"; "some paper" [syn: some(a)] [ant: no(a), all(a)]

2 unknown or unspecified; "some lunatic drove into my car"; "some man telephoned while you were out"; "some day my prince will come"; "some enchanted evening" [syn: some(a)]

3 relatively many but unspecified in number; "they were here for some weeks"; "we did not meet again for some years" [syn: some(a)]

4 remarkable; "that was some party"; "she is some skier"

5 relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent; "we talked for some time"; "he was still some distance away" [syn: some(a)] adv : (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "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" [syn: approximately, about, close to, just about, roughly, more or less, around, or so]

English

Pronunciation

• /sʌm/, /sVm/
• a AusE /sam/, /sam/
• Homophones: sum

Etymology

sum

Determiner

1. An unspecified quantity or number of.

   Would you like some grapes?

2. A considerable quantity or number of.

   He had edited the paper for some years.

3. An unspecified or unknown.

   I've just met some man who said he knew you.

4. a remarkable.

   He is some acrobat!

5. An indefinite quantity of.

   Everyone is wrong some of the time.

6. At least one.

   Well, at least some came.

Synonyms

• a few

Antonyms

• many
• none, no

Derived terms

rel-top terms derived from some

• somebody
• someday
• somehow
• someone
• something
• sometimes
• somewhat
• somewhere

Translations

• Arabic: (bɑʕḍ)

  Egyptian: (bɑʕḍ)

• Armenian: ինչ որ (inč vor)
• Chinese Characters: 幾, (simplified)几
• Chinese: 一些 (yìxiē)
• Czech: několik
• Dutch: enkele
• Esperanto: kelke, kelka (1), kelkaj (2)
• Finnish: muutama
• French: quelques
• German: einige
• Hungarian: néhány, némi
• Ido: ula, kelka
• Italian: qualche
• Japanese: いくつかの (ikutsuka no), いくらかの (ikuraka no)
• Korean: 어떤 (eoddeon)
• Kurdish: hin, hinek, hindek, çendek, çend,
• Latin: aliqui , aliqua , aliquod
• Maltese: xi
• Norwegian: noe (uncountable), noen (countable)
• Portuguese: alguns p, algumas f|p
• Romanian: nişte, câteva
• Russian: несколько (néskol’ko), некоторые (nékotoryje)
• Slovak: niekoľko
• Spanish: algunos m|p, algunas f|p
• Swedish: några
• Telugu: కొన్ని (konni), కొందరు (koMdaru), కొంత (koMta)
• Tok Pisin: sampela
• Turkish: biraz, bazı, yaklaşık

Some may refer to:

• Some, a word denoting an indeterminate number of something: see Grammatical number

• "Some", a song by Built to Spill from their 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love

• Some Records, an US record label.

• So Others Might Eat (SOME), a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization.

• The term associated with the existential quantifier.

Daedalian, a, about, adept, adroit, all but, almost, an, any, anything, approximately, apt, artistic, as good as, aught, authoritative, bravura, brilliant, certain, circa, clean, clever, composite, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, divers, excellent, expert, fairly, fancy, good, goodish, graceful, handy, ingenious, just about, kind of, magisterial, masterful, masterly, measured, moderately, more, more or less, more than one, most, nearly, neat, no mean, not singular, numerous, one, plural, pluralistic, plurative, plus ou moins, politic, practically, professional, proficient, quantified, quantitative, quantitive, quantized, quick, quite some, ready, resourceful, skillful, slick, something, somewhat, statesmanlike, stylish, sundry, tactful, the compleat, the complete, various, virtuoso, well-done, well-nigh, workmanlike