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English to English adjective
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quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity |  | Example: have some milk
some roses were still blooming
having some friends over
some apples
some paper
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An adjective suffix having primarily the sense of like or same, and indicating a considerable degree of the thing or quality denoted in the first part of the compound; as in mettlesome, full of mettle or spirit; gladsome, full of gladness; winsome, blithesome, etc. | | source: webster1913
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Consisting of a greater or less portion or sum; composed of a quantity or number which is not stated; -- used to express an indefinite quantity or number; as, some wine; some water; some persons. Used also pronominally; as, I have some. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent | | Example: we talked for some time
he was still some distance away
source: wordnet30
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relatively many but unspecified in number | | Example: they were here for some weeks
we did not meet again for some years
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remarkable | | Example: that was some party
she is some skier
source: wordnet30 adverb
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(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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