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thereaboutor there·a·bouts [ thair-uh-bout, thair-uh-bout ] / ˈðɛər əˌbaʊt, ˌðɛər əˈbaʊt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR thereabout ON THESAURUS.COM
adverbabout or near that place or time: last June or thereabout. about that number, amount, etc. Origin of thereaboutbefore 950; Middle English ther aboute,Old English thǣr abūtan.See there, about Words nearby thereaboutTheravada, Theravadin, Raven, The, therblig, there, thereabout, thereabouts, thereafter, the real McCoy, There are plenty of fish in the sea, thereat Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for thereaboutSo Meekins, at noon or thereabout, set off for Philadelphia, and before dark he was heard from. The Stacks: H.L. Mencken on the 1904 Baltimore Fire|H.L. Mencken|October 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST The Alaska Road Commission has lavished large sums of money upon it, and the four hundred miles or thereabout is made in a week. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled|Hudson Stuck According to Foxe, Latimer went to school “at the age of four or thereabout.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 2|Various Nobody in all Poketown, or thereabout, had such a garden as the Days this spring. Janice Day|Helen Beecher Long
He was a man of forty or thereabout, thin, alert, and using a single eye-glass. The Red Triangle|Arthur Morrison So we planned, and thereafter went back to the cells and to Dalfin, who woke at noontide or thereabout with a great hunger on him. A Sea Queen's Sailing|Charles Whistler
Words related to thereaboutalmost, approximately, around, just about, near, nearby, nearly, roughly, close at hand |