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Meaning of THEREABOUT

Pronunciation:  'dhehru`bawt

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adv]  near that place; "he stayed in London or thereabouts for several weeks"
  2. [adv]  near that time or date; "come at noon or thereabouts"
 
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 Synonyms: thereabouts
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.
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