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Thereabout

Thereabout \There"a*bout`\, Thereabouts \There"a*bouts`\, adv.

  1. Near that place.

  2. Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts.

    Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts.
    --Shak.

    Some three months since, or thereabout.
    --Suckling.

  3. Concerning that; about that. [R.]

    What will ye dine? I will go thereabout.
    --Chaucer.

    They were much perplexed thereabout.
    --Luke xxiv.

Wiktionary
thereabout

adv. 1 near that place, time or date 2 approximately that number 3 (context obsolete English) concerning that; about that

WordNet
thereabout
  1. adv. near that time or date; "come at noon or thereabouts" [syn: thereabouts]

  2. near that place; "he stayed in London or thereabouts for several weeks" [syn: thereabouts]

Usage examples of "thereabout".

Though there was, as I said, a great talk thereabout, yet I do not think they did firmly believe it.

Everybody thereabout raises horses and is continually trading breed stallions and brood mares with his neighbors at the markets.

Then Ralph saw some of the men stoop and shoot out a broad plank over the ditch, which was deep but not wide thereabout, and straightway he followed the others over it, going last save Roger.

I come thereabout I shall presently find some castle or good town, and it is like that either I shall have some tidings of the folk thereof, or else they will compel me to do something, and that will irk me less than doing deeds of mine own will.

Yet was there naught worse to meet save toil, because they were over strong for the wild men to meddle with them, whereas the kindreds thereabout were but feeble.

Bethink thee, child, there are they that love thee in Upmeads and thereabout, were it but thy gossip, my wife, dame Katherine.

I will make my way eastward then, toward the great lake Brigantinus, for the springtime breakup of the ice on the streams thereabout, when the beavers emerge from their burrows and their pelts are at their prime.

The waters and the riverbanks and the other bits of land thereabout are of almost equal flatness, and Noviodunum consists entirely of buildings only a single story in height.

As I had warned, the marshlands thereabout gave no firm purchase for the setting up of catapults or the massing of dense ranks of archers.

O Mivarsh, runneth not this flood of Athrashah south to the salt lakes of Ogo Morveo, and was there not thereabout a hold named Eshgrar Ogo?

Tesaoua, and the countries thereabout, Haussa, and say it is near, and that they go on donkeys.

For all the good he spendeth thereabout, He lose shall, thereof have I no doubt.

THE LITTLE CASK He was a tall man of forty or thereabout, this Jules Chicot, the innkeeper of Spreville, with a red face and a round stomach, and said by those who knew him to be a smart business man.

It went here and thereabout the town, dying and borning again like a wind or a fire until in the lengthening shadows the country people began to depart in wagons and dusty cars and the townspeople began to move supperward.

And not only did the Martians either not know of (which is incredible), or abstain from, the wheel, but in their apparatus singularly little use is made of the fixed pivot, or relatively fixed pivot, with circular motions thereabout confined to one plane.