someday

[suhm-dey]

adverb

1. at an indefinite future time.

someday

/ ˈsʌmˌdeɪ /

adverb

1. at some unspecified time in the (distant) future

Spelling Note

The adverb someday is written solid: Perhaps someday we will know the truth. The two-word form some day means “a specific but unnamed day”: We will reschedule the meeting for some day when everyone can attend.

Word History and Origins

Origin of someday¹

before 900; Middle English sum day, Old English sum dæg; some, day

Example Sentences

If stablecoins do someday compete with larger banks, all that banks would have to do to prevent outflows is pay higher interest and improve their services.

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Rockne told a friend that the often-injured player who seldom started will someday “be recognized as the greatest football coach of all time.”

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Who knows, maybe someday the machines will sign a Buttonwood Agreement of their own.

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Hartwig, who grew up in the Golden State, hopes Arbor’s technology can someday return to California to help finance the solution for the wildfire crisis he spent so many years facing head-on.

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Arisu and Usagi make it back to the real world, postponing their final whirlpool voyage to someday in the future, and instead choosing life.

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• sometime 
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• ultimately