Definition of some

"some" in the adjective sense

1. some

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"

2. some

relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent

"we talked for some time"

"he was still some distance away"

3. some

relatively many but unspecified in number

"they were here for some weeks"

"we did not meet again for some years"

4. some

remarkable

"that was some party"

"she is some skier"

"some" in the adverb sense

1. approximately, about, close to, just about, some, roughly, more or less, around, or so

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"

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Quotations for some

Some fish, some frogs. [ Proverb ]

Some syllables are swords. [ Henry Vaughan ]

Try to be of some use to others. [ Bishop Hall ]

A good garden may have some weeds. [ Proverb ]

Some men's ugliness is hard to beat. [ G. D. Prentice ]

There is no moment without some duty. [ Cicero ]

We have some salt of our youth in us. [ William Shakespeare ]

Good things come to some while asleep. [ French Proverb ]

The vices of some men are magnificent. [ Lamb ]

Some people are proud of their humility. [ Beecher ]

Without the meed of some melodious tear. [ Milton ]

Some folks are drunk, yet do not know it. [ Prior ]

Some remedies are worse than the disease. [ Publius Syrus ]

All great men are in some degree inspired. [ Cicero ]

Some sins do bear their privilege on earth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone. [ William Shakespeare ]

Calumniate boldly, always some of it sticks. [ Bacon ]

My right eye itches, some good luck is near. [ Dryden ]

Better some of a pudding than none of a pie. [ Proverb ]

The wisest among us is a fool in some things. [ Richardson ]

Each passing year robs us of some possession. [ Horace ]

He that hath some land must have some labour. [ Proverb ]

Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart. [ Crabbe ]

He who seeks for gain must be at some expense. [ Plautus ]

Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious. [ Willmott ]

Some books are only cursorily to be tasted of. [ Fuller ]

Be not simply good — be good for some thing. [ Thoreau ]

Some noble spirits mistake despair for content. [ Willis ]

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment. [ Hillard ]

God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others. [ W. R. Alger ]

Interest blinds some people and enlightens others. [ La Roche ]

Every pleasure pre-supposes some sort of activity. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. [ William Shakespeare ]

Great talents have some admirers, but few friends. [ Niebuhr ]

There must be in prudence also some master virtue. [ Aristotle ]

Some one calls biography the home aspect of history. [ Beecher ]

Despair hath damned some, but presumption multitudes. [ Proverb ]

As long as any man exists, there is some need of him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

There is no person who is not dangerous for some one. [ Mme. de Sevigne ]

Drunkenness makes men fools; some beasts, some devils. [ Proverb ]

The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius. [ Whipple ]

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts. [ G. D. Prentice ]

All men naturally have some love and liking for truth. [ Proverb ]

The world is a ladder for some to go up, and some down. [ Proverb ]

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. [ Burton ]

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love. [ Willmott ]

Sin every day takes out a patent for some new invention. [ Whipple ]

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. [ Cowley ]

A poor man wants some things, a covetous man all things. [ Proverb ]

Everybody gives advice: some listen to it; none apply it. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. [ Emerson ]

Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes. [ Chesterfield ]

It is at courts as it is in ponds, some fish, some frogs. [ Proverb ]

The blush is beautiful, but it is some times inconvenient. [ Goldoni ]

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. [ Lucan ]

To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies. [ William Shakespeare ]

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. [ Lyly ]

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known. [ Ruskin ]

There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness. [ Seneca ]

Drive not too many ploughs at once; some will make foul work. [ Proverb ]

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend. [ Swift ]

Books have brought some men to knowledge, and some to madness. [ Petrarch ]

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. [ William Shakespeare ]

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero. [ Carlyle ]

Some must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Some to the fascination of a name surrender judgment hoodwinked. [ Cowper ]

Some there be that shadows kiss; such have but a shadow's bliss. [ William Shakespeare ]

A fool always finds some one more foolish than he to admire him. [ Boileau ]

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. [ Burke ]

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof. [ Channing ]

Man must have some fears, hopes, and cares, for the coming morrow. [ Schiller ]

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. [ Burke ]

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. [ Seneca ]

The world is like a staircase; some are going up and some going down. [ Italian Proverb ]

Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some. [ Alphonse Karr ]

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing. [ James A. Garfield ]

He who can take advice is some times superior to him who can give it. [ Von Knebel ]

We must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is. [ Chapin ]

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

A man only understands what is akin to some things already in his mind. [ Amiel ]

Of those which you read, some are good, some middling, and more are bad. [ Mart., of books ]

Age makes us not childish, as some say; it finds us still true children. [ Goethe ]

God gives whole days to the fortunate, and but some hours to the unhappy. [ Proverb ]

Flight towards preferment will be but slow, without some golden feathers. [ Proverb ]

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. [ Keith ]

There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide. [ George Sand ]

Literature is full of coincidences which some love to believe plagiarisms. [ O. W. Holmes ]

There are some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed. [ Chamfort ]

To some purpose is that man wise who gains his wisdom at another's expense. [ Plautus ]

Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine. [ Greek Anthology ]

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil substance. [ Milton ]

There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously. [ Haliburton ]

Some are unwisely liberal; and more delight to give presents than to pay debts. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The smallest word has some unguarded spot, and danger lurks in i without a dot. [ O. W. Holmes ]

There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it. [ Hillard ]

There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Anger has some claim to indulgence, and railing is usually a relief to the mind. [ Junius ]

some in Scrabble®

The word some is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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some in Words With Friends™

The word some is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words containing the sequence some

Words with some in them (250 words)

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anisometropia anisometropias

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centrosome centrosomes

chondriosome chondriosomes

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chromosome chromosomes isochromosomes

chromosome chromosomes microchromosomes

chromosome isochromosome isochromosomes

chromosome microchromosome microchromosomes

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compressometer compressometers

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cytosome cytosomes

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dictyosome dictyosomes

diplosome diplosomes

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dorsomedian

dorsomesal dorsomesally

ectosome ectosomes ejectosomes

ectosome ejectosome ejectosomes

ejectisome ejectisomes

elaiosome elaiosomes

endosome endosomes

episome episomes

exosome exosomes

extrusome extrusomes

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frolicsome

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grisometer grisometers

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isomer alloisomer alloisomerism

isomer alloisomer alloisomers

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isomer isomerase topoisomerase

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isometries

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liposome liposomes proteoliposomes

liposome nanoliposome nanoliposomes

liposome proteoliposome proteoliposomes

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lysosome lysosomes

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noisome noisomeness

nucleosome nucleosomes

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peroxisome peroxisomes

phagosome phagosomes

phragmosome phragmosomes

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plasmosome plasmosomes

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polymersome polymersomes

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quantasome quantasomes

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ransomer ransomers

ribosome ribosomes

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spliceosome spliceosomes

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transmissometer transmissometers

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trypanosome trypanosomes

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