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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thereabout \There"a*bout`\, Thereabouts \There"a*bouts`\, adv
[The latter spelling is less proper, but more commonly used.]
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.
4.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
thereabout
adv 1: 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}]
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