SOMEWHATS

Noun

somewhats

plural of somewhat

Source: Wiktionary


SOMEWHAT

Some"what`, n.

1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost. Dryden.

2. A person or thing of importance; a somebody. Here come those that worship me. They think that I am somewhat. Tennyson.

Some"what`, adv.

Definition: In some degree or measure; a little. His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen. Milton. Somewhat back from the village street. Longfellow.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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