[syn: thereabout, thereabouts]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Thereabout \There"a*bout`\, Thereabouts \There"a*bouts`\, adv.
[The latter spelling is less proper, but more commonly used.]
1. Near that place.
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2. Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten
men, or thereabouts.
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Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts.
--Shak.
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Some three months since, or thereabout. --Suckling.
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3. Concerning that; about that. [R.]
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What will ye dine? I will go thereabout. --Chaucer.
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They were much perplexed thereabout. --Luke xxiv.
4.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
thereabout
adv 1: near that time or date; "come at noon or thereabouts"
[syn: thereabout, thereabouts]
2: near that place; "he stayed in London or thereabouts for
several weeks" [syn: thereabout, thereabouts]