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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Something

/sŭmʹthĭng/ · Some·thing · IPA /[ˈsɐm̥(p)θɪŋ]/
01 n. Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecifi…
  1. 1.
    Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing.
    “There is something in the wind.” — Shak.
    “The whole world has something to do, something to talk of, something to wish for, and something to be employed about.” — Pope.
    “Something attemped, something done, Has earned a night's repose.” — Longfellow.
  2. 2.
    A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little.
    “Something yet of doubt remains.” — Milton.
    “Something of it arises from our infant state.” — I. Watts.
  3. 3.
    A person or thing importance.
    “If a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.” — Gal. vi. 3.
02 adv. In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance.
  1. 1.
    In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance.
    “I something fear my father's wrath.” — Shak.
    “We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly.” — Burke.
    “My sense of touch is something coarse.” — Tennyson.
    “It must be done to-night, And something from the palace.” — Shak.