THEREABOUTS


Meaning of THEREABOUTS in English

ˈ ̷ ̷əˌbau̇ts, ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ adverb

or there·about -t

Etymology: thereabout from Middle English ther aboute, from Old English thǣr abūtan, from thǣr there + abūtan about; thereabouts from Middle English ther aboutes, from ther aboute + -s (as in dayes days)

1. : near that place : in the neighborhood

film set in the Mojave desert and the mountains thereabout — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin

stayed there or thereabouts for several days

2.

a. : near that time or date

got home at six o'clock or thereabouts

vignettes seen through the French illustrations of the 1850's or thereabouts — Irving Kolodin

b. : near that number : near that degree : near that quantity

living in Wessex, off and on, for thirty years or thereabout — H.M.Tomlinson

3. usually thereabout , archaic : about that : in connection with that

they were much perplexed thereabout — Lk 24:4 (Authorized Version)

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