Crossword clues for thereabouts
thereabouts
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thereabout \There"a*bout`\, Thereabouts \There"a*bouts`\, adv.
Near that place.
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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.
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Concerning that; about that. [R.]
What will ye dine? I will go thereabout.
--Chaucer.They were much perplexed thereabout.
--Luke xxiv.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. (alternative form of thereabout English)
WordNet
adv. near that time or date; "come at noon or thereabouts" [syn: thereabout]
near that place; "he stayed in London or thereabouts for several weeks" [syn: thereabout]
Usage examples of "thereabouts".
This he did, fearing lest they should be surprised and cut off by an ambuscade of Spaniards, that might chance to lie thereabouts in the neighbouring woods, which appeared so thick as to seem almost impenetrable.
This was a one-gee world, or thereabouts, and Maro quickly estimated the amount of weight stacked on the bar.
Of course, that was a score of years agone, back when el Conde Don Hernan Padilla and his issue still held their patrimonial lands thereabouts.
We should thus have been compelled to keep concentrated at Scapa Flow or thereabouts practically every new ship we had, and he would have had all the advantages of a selected moment without the strain of being always ready.
In the meanwhile he gave orders for so much rice and maize to be collected thereabouts as was necessary for the victualling all his ships.
She was no longer sure, but it had been thereabouts, and Blackie had been her dearest, closest friend for all those sixty-five years.
Waverly Place, by the bye, got its name through a petition of select booklovers who lived thereabouts and adored Sir.
I bought a passage on the old tub, and we got in at Le Havre at one, or thereabouts.
She is eight and twenty, or thereabouts, so she has quite put missishness behind her.
So they ran both scooters into a farm gateway, the verges thereabouts consisting mostly of ditch, and took stock.
Then the Sotho are thought to have gone south over the river into what is now the Transvaal in the middle of the fifteenth century, or thereabouts, and the Shona a little later.
Camille sent me a lottery ticket, which she had invested in at my office, and which proved to be a winning one, I think, for a thousand crowns or thereabouts.
We have a hundred thousand francs or thereabouts loaned on their securities, and we are a little uneasy at reports that have reached us that the firm is on the brink of ruin.
Timed by pulsebeats, it struck once every fifteen seconds or thereabouts: undoubtedly the fog signal of some minor light-house.
It was thereabouts that Feringhea, the Thuggee chief, king of the stranglers, held his sway.