Thereabouts
['ðeərəbaʊts;-'baʊts]
Definition
(adv.) Near that place.
(adv.) Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts.
(adv.) Concerning that; about that.
Typist: Waldo
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. [1]. Nearly, about that, somewhere about that.[2]. Near that place.
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Examples
- By disappearing from such place, and being no more heard of thereabouts. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Clear of the room he looks at his watch but is inclined to doubt it by a minute or thereabouts. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- All that again is what might have happened in 500 B.C. or thereabouts against the Huns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We went towards Camberwell Green, and when we were thereabouts, Wemmick said suddenly,-- Halloa! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Four years apiece, or thereabouts. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- No, not nine, but there or thereabouts. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It had remained there, only twelve feet underground, for a matter of twenty-five hundred years or thereabouts. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They desired me to stay--my cousin Maria charged me to say that you would find them at that knoll, or thereabouts. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It should be borne in mind that the incandescent lamp which was accepted at the time as a standard (and has so remained to the present day) was a lamp of 110 volts or thereabouts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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