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thereabouts |
2 definitions found 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]: thereabouts adv 1: near that time or date; "come at noon or thereabouts" [syn: {thereabout}] 2: near that place "he stayed in London or thereabouts for several weeks" [syn: {thereabout}]
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