Definition/Meaning of somewhat

• English - Adverb: somewhat ( not comparable ) To a limited extent or degree . The crowd was somewhat larger than expected , perhaps due to the good weather . The decision to shave or not is a somewhat personal
• English - Pronoun: somewhat ( archaic ) Something . 1590 , Edmund Spenser , The Faerie Queene , III .12: Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand , / As if in minde he somewhat had to say […]. Robert Trail But this text and theme I am upon , relates to somewhat far higher and greater , than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received . 1851 , Herman Melville , Moby-Dick Not seldom in…
• English - Noun: somewhat ( plural somewhats ) More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part , more or less; something . Grew These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste . Dryden Somewhat of his good sense will suffer , in this transfusion , and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost . A person or thing of importance; a somebody . Tennyson Here come those that worship me . / They think that I am…
• English - Alternative forms: ( British , dialectal ) summat ( and variants listed there )
• English - Etymology: some +‎ what