\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.