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  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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