sometime Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective satellite belonging to some prior time
old; erstwhile; quondam; onetime; one-time; former.
- erstwhile friend
- our former glory
- the once capital of the state
- her quondam lover
adverb at some indefinite or unstated time
- let's get together sometime
- everything has to end sometime
- It was to be printed sometime later

At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.
Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me? Shak.
At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes.
Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometime like a bear or lion. Shak.
At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime. "Sometime he reckon shall." Chaucer.

Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.
Our sometime sister, now our queen. Shak.

Ion, our sometime darling, whom we prized. Talfourd.