Adjective: some súm or sum
- (quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
"having some friends over"; "some apples"; "some paper"; "have some milk"; "some roses were still blooming"
- Relatively many but unspecified in number
"they were here for some weeks"; "we did not meet again for some years"
- Remarkable
"that was some party"; "she is some skier"
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
"some forty people came";
- approximately, about, close to, just about, roughly, more or less, around, or so, loosely
See also: beaucoup [US, dialect, informal], both, extraordinary, few, many, several, whatever, whatsoever
Encyclopedia: Some, Thomas