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Adjective some has 5 senses
- some - quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity; "have some milk"; "some roses were still blooming"; "having some friends over"; "some apples"; "some paper"
Antonyms: no, nary, none, zero, all, each, every, every last
- some - unknown or unspecified; "some lunatic drove into my car"; "some man telephoned while you were out"; "some day my prince will come"; "some enchanted evening"
Antonym: specified (indirect, via unspecified)
- some - relatively many but unspecified in number; "they were here for some weeks"; "we did not meet again for some years"
Antonym: few (indirect, via many)
- some - remarkable; "that was some party"; "she is some skier"
Antonym: ordinary (indirect, via extraordinary)
- some - relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent; "we talked for some time"; "he was still some distance away"
Antonym: little (indirect, via much)
Adverbial some has 1 sense
- approximately, about, close to, just about, some, roughly, more or less, around, or so - (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "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"
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