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something
[ suhm-thing ]
pronoun
- some thing; a certain undetermined or unspecified thing:
Something is wrong there.
Something's happening.
- an additional amount, as of cents or minutes, that is unknown, unspecified, or forgotten:
He charged me ten something for the hat.
Our train gets in at two something.
noun
- Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence:
He is really something!
This writer has something to say and she says it well.
adverb
- in some degree; to some extent; somewhat.
- Informal. to a high or extreme degree; quite:
He took on something fierce about my tardiness.
something
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pronoun
- an unspecified or unknown thing; some thing
take something warm with you
he knows something you don't
- an unspecified or unknown amount; bit
something less than a hundred
- an impressive or important person, thing, or event
isn't that something?
- something elsea remarkable person or thing
- something or otherone unspecified thing or an alternative thing
adverb
- to some degree; a little; somewhat
to look something like me
- informal.foll by an adjective (intensifier)
it hurts something awful
-something
2combining form
- a person whose age can be approximately expressed by a specified decade
- ( as modifier )
the thirtysomething market
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Idioms and Phrases
- buy something
- get (have) something on someone
- get something straight
- have something against
- hold something against
- hold (something) over
- look like something the cat dragged in
- make something of
- not put something past one
- on the ball, have something
- (something) or other
- pull something on
- start something
- take something
- you know something
Example Sentences
Ms Dali said she was walking away with something even more valuable - self-confidence: "I didn't win, but I feel proud. This is who I am."
Prof White says now is the time to build on these foundations – something a national men's health strategy is vital for.
The 40-year-old added: "It is something we probably think about most days, if not every day."
There is something bigger here.
Adeleye pointed out something similar happened to him in a defeat by Fabio Wardley in 2023, adding: "You know what they say, swings and roundabouts."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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