some
adverb/sʌm/
/sʌm/
- used before numbers to mean ‘approximately’
- Some thirty people attended the funeral.
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- (North American English, informal) to some degree
- He needs feeding up some.
- ‘Are you finding the work any easier?’ ‘Some.’
Word OriginOld English sum, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek hamōs ‘somehow’ and Sanskrit sama ‘any, every’.
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