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Definition: Someway |
SomewayAdverb1. In some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means; "they managed somehow"; "he expected somehow to discover a woman who would love him"; "he tried to make is someway acceptable". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "someway" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
Synonyms: SomewaySynonyms: in some manner (adv), in some way (adv), somehow (adv), someways (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Someway |
| English words defined with "someway": in some manner, in some way ♦ somehow, someways. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Love may still be alive somewhere someway (RHYTHM OF MY HEART; performing artist: Rod Stewart) | |
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| "Someway" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Someway" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
someday someway | 4 |
brian mcknight someday somehow someway | 3 |
brian lyrics mcknight someday somehow someway | 3 |
lyrics someday somehow someway | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "someway"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | në njëfarë mënyre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | някак (kind of, like). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | irgendwie (anyhow, anyway, somehow, somehow or other, sort of). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | οπωσδήποτε (anyhow, anyway, however, howsoever, soever, somehow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | איך ש"ו (somehow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | valahogyan (anyhow, anyway, anywise, somehow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | in qualche modo (anything, somehow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | er aght ennagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | omewaysay de qualquer maneira (anyhow, anyway, anywise, at any rate, however, howsoever, in any event, rain or shine, somehow), de alguma maneira (somehow), de algum modo (any, somehow). (various references) каким-то образом (somewise). (various references) nekako (kind of, somehow, somewise). (various references) de algún modo (somehow). (various references) "้วยวิธีใ"วิธีหนึ่ง. (various references) якимсь чином (anyhow, anywise, someways). (various references) về một mặt n o đó; bằng một cách n o đó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "someway": someways. (additional references) | |
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"Someway" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Samawah, sineway. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-o-s-w-y" | |
-2 letters: mayos, meows, mosey, seamy, swamy, wames, yowes. | |
-3 letters: awes, ayes, easy, eyas, maes, maws, mayo, mays, meow, mesa, mews, moas, mows, owes, owse, oyes, same, seam, smew, soma, some, soya, swam, sway, waes, wame, ways, woes, wyes, yams, yaws, yeas, yews, yowe, yows. | |
-4 letters: awe, aye, ays, ems, mae, mas, maw, may, mew. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-o-s-w-y" | |
+1 letter: someways. | |
+2 letters: awesomely. | |
+3 letters: mayflowers. | |
+4 letters: wearisomely. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 6D 65 77 61 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- -- . .--. .- -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01101101 01100101 01110111 01100001 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o m e w a y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 006D 0065 0077 0061 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53817971896791 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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