sometime

Etymology

From Middle English somtyme, som time, some tyme, sume time, sumtym, sumtyme, equivalent to some + time.

adv

1. At an indefinite but stated time in the past or future.
   I'll see you at the pub sometime this evening.
   This will certainly happen sometime in the future.
   It happened sometime yesterday.
2. (obsolete) Sometimes.
3. (obsolete) At an unstated past or future time; once; formerly.

adj

1. Former, erstwhile; at some previous time.
   my sometime friend and mentor
   Ion our sometime darling, whom we prized / As a stray gift, by bounteous Heaven dismiss'd 1832, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Ion: A Tragedy, in Five Acts
2. Occasional.
   an author and sometime lecturer