something

[ suhm-thing ]

/ ˈsʌmˌθɪŋ /

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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.

Origin of something

before 1000; Middle English, Old English sum thing. See some, thing¹

Words nearby something

somerset island, somersetshire, somersworth, somerville, somesthesia, something, something else, something else again, something in the wind, something is rotten in the state of denmark, something like

Example sentences from the Web for something

Something like fluoride, which is too small for normal filters, yanks away that feeling of agency.

Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers |Michael Schulson |July 27, 2016 |DAILY BEAST
But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.

‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed Spills Season 6 Secrets, From Surreal Plotlines to Life Post-ISIS |Marlow Stern |January 8, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
It was something ineffable and harder to define: freedom of speech.

Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead |Luke O’Neil |January 8, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
We did ThunderAnt stuff for ourselves and just put it online, and then it blossomed into something else.

Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness |Marlow Stern |January 7, 2015 |DAILY BEAST

Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.

Why Was Bess Myerson the First and Last Jewish Miss America? |Emily Shire |January 7, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
In the porch he paused a moment, to draw on his woollen gloves, and button his great coat, and for something besides.

Gifts of Genius |Various
It was a hope which came from something one of the great poets of the past had said, in prophecy.

How to Tell Stories to Children |Sara Cone Bryant
One could see that, in both places, something like an old world dignity of life had in the past been kept up.

A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs |George M. Wrong
He thought her very lovely, and there was a subtle suggestion of something besides loveliness.

The Butterfly House |Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Mr. Jenner, if I may, I would like to say something for the purpose of the record.

Warren Commission (1 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) |The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

British Dictionary definitions for something

something

/ (ˈsʌmθɪŋ) /

pronoun

an unspecified or unknown thing; some thing he knows something you don't; take something warm with you

an unspecified or unknown amount; bit something less than a hundred

an impressive or important person, thing, or event isn't that something?

something else a remarkable person or thing

something or other one unspecified thing or an alternative thing

adverb

to some degree; a little; somewhat to look something like me

(foll by an adjective) informal (intensifier) it hurts something awful

Idioms and Phrases with something

something

In addition to the idioms beginning with something

something else
something else again
something in the wind
something like
something of a
something or other
something tells me
something thing, a

also see:

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

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