some

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some/səm/

▶determiner

• 1 an unspecified amount or number of.

• 2 denoting an unknown or unspecified person or thing.

• 3 (used with a number) approximately.

• 4 a considerable amount or number of.

• 5 at least a small amount or number of.

• 6 expressing admiration: that was some goal.

  ■ used ironically to express disapproval or disbelief.

▶pronoun

• 1 an unspecified number or amount of people or things.

• 2 at least a small number or amount of people or things.

▶adverb N. Amer. informal to some extent.

– phrases
and then some informal and plenty more than that.

– origin OE sum, of Gmc origin.

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▶suffix forming adjectives meaning.

• 1 productive of: loathsome.

• 2 characterized by being: wholesome.

  ■ apt to: tiresome.

– origin OE -sum.

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▶suffix (forming nouns) denoting a group of a specified number: foursome.

– origin OE sum ‘some’.

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▶combining form denoting a portion of a body, especially a particle of a cell: chromosome.

– origin from Gk sōma ‘body’.