some
determiner (UNKNOWN AMOUNT) /sʌm, səm/Definition
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2. Practise
A1 an amount or number of something that is not stated or not known; a part of something: There's some cake in the kitchen if you'd like it. Here's some news you might be interested in. We've been having some problems with our TV over the last few weeks. Could you give me some idea of when the building work will finish? I've got to do some more work before I can go out.Some and quite
(Definition of some determiner (UNKNOWN AMOUNT) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Also, extra, and in addition
- Augmenting and supplementing
- Available and accessible
- Becoming and making smaller or less
- Becoming bigger
- Big and quite big
- Enlarging and inflating
- Enormous
- Enough
- Extremely small
- General words for size and amount
- Increasing and intensifying
- Large in number or quantity
- Masses and large amounts of things
- Maximum and minimum
- Medium-sized
- Merely and barely
- Plenty and abundant
- Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- Small
- Small in number and quantity
- Someone, anyone, no one or everyone
- Something, anything, nothing, and everything
- Things collected in lines or rings
- Things remaining
- Too much and unnecessary
- Unavailable and inaccessible
- Unlimited
- Words meaning small pieces and amounts
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Synonyms and related words:
- bit noun (AMOUNT)
- certain pronoun
- faintly adverb
- fairly adverb (QUITE)
- ha'porth noun
- halfway adverb
- little adverb (SMALL AMOUNT)
- mildly adverb
- pretty adverb
- quite adverb, predeterminer
- rather adverb (SMALL AMOUNT)
- reasonably adverb
- remotely adverb (SLIGHTLY)
- several determiner, pronoun
- some ... or other idiom
- some determiner (PARTICULAR THING)
- sort of idiom
- to a/some degree idiom
- touch noun (SMALL AMOUNT)
- trifle noun (UNIMPORTANT THING)
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