Dictionary entry

Somewhat

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Some″what′ (?), n. 1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.

These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew.

Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost. Dryden.

2. A person or thing of importance; a somebody.

Here come those that worship me.

They think that I am somewhat. Tennyson.